XTC
Apple Vinyls

Listening notes

Apple Vinyls is a vinyl box set by XTC, released in 2006 on Idea Records under catalog number IDEA007. The set is categorized under the genres of art rock, pop rock, and rock.

The release takes an unusual structural approach to sequencing, organizing its twenty-six tracks across sides labeled A through Z rather than the conventional numbered or paired-side format common to multi-record sets. Each side carries a single track, and the titles represented here span a substantial portion of XTC's later catalog. Among the tracks included are "River Of Orchids," "Easter Theatre," "Greenman," "Your Dictionary," "We're All Light," "Stupidly Happy," and "The Wheel And The Maypole," alongside nineteen additional titles. The full listing runs from the A-side's "River Of Orchids" to the Z-side's "Say It."

The alphabetical side-labeling scheme gives the box set a self-contained logic of its own, and the sheer scope of twenty-six individual sides makes this an unusually expansive physical format. Whether that structure corresponds to a specific number of individual records cannot be confirmed from the available documentation, and track durations are not recorded here.

The release was issued by Idea Records, a label associated with XTC-related releases during this period. The catalog number IDEA007 places it within that label's sequence, though no further detail about the label's output is available for comparison here.

Collectors and researchers consulting this entry should note that personnel, pressing information, and any edition variants are not documented in the current source data and would require independent verification before inclusion in a finalized record.