Track Listing

1. Good Vibrations
2. California Girls
3. I Get Around
4. Wouldn't It Be Nice
5. Surfin' Safari
6. Fun, Fun, Fun
7. Surfin' U.S.A.
8. Help Me, Rhonda
9. Don't Worry Baby
10. When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)
11. Little Deuce Coupe
12. Dance, Dance, Dance
13. Little Honda
14. Do You Wanna Dance
15. Surfer Girl
16. Then I Kissed Her
17. God Only Knows
18. Caroline No
19. Sloop John B
20. Barbara Ann
21. Heroes and Villains
22. Do It Again
23. Darlin'
24. Wild Honey
25. Break Away
26. Rock & Roll Music
27. I Can Hear Music
28. Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)
29. Lady Lynda
30. Kokomo

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #96761 in Music
• Published on: 2001
• Released on: 2001-09-11
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Import, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Album Description
Exclusive import only 30 track two cd collection. All tracks have been digitally remastered. Featuring all the hits you know and love. Highlights include, 'Wouldn't It Be Nice (Original Pet Sounds Mono Version)', 'Help Me Rhonda (Mono Single Version)', 'God Only Knows (Original Pet Sounds Mono Remastered Version)', 'Caroline No(Original Pet Sounds Mono Remastered Version)', 'Sloop John B. (Original Pet Sounds Mono Remastered Version)' other tracks include, 'Good Vibrartions', 'California Girls', 'I Get Around', 'Rock & Roll Music', 'Then I Kissed Her' and many more. 2001 EMI release.

Customer Reviews

The Very Best of the Beach Boys on One CD
To find a CD with 30 hits of the Beach Boys was very hard, until I found "The Very Best of The Beach Boys". The sound is excellent and al the songs that are included here, are excellent too.Starting with "Good Vibrations", "California girls", "I get around", and ending with the great "Kokomo", each and every one of the songs will move us to another time, in the sixties or even in the seventies.And here is included too one of the finest and more beautiful songs ever wroten... "God only knows". I only miss two or three songs from the Beach Boys Album "L. A"., that I guess they had to be included here. But, even so, this is collector's CD, and I'm so glad that I have it.

The strongest collection of their hits
So many of their songs are well known, and not just to those who were raised on this music, but to people of all ages. Part of the reason may be that surf music is inextricably linked with the sixties - you won't find any modern equivalent.

Here you get the classic songs they wrote themselves - California girls, Fun fun fun, Good vibrations, Little deuce coupe, Help me Rhonda, God only knows, Darlin', I get around and Wouldn't it be nice to name just a few - together with songs that they covered in their own unique way - Do you wanna dance, Then I kissed her, Sloop John B and Cotton fields.

There have been plenty of compilations of their music down the years and will be many more. Given the number of classic songs they recorded, picking just thirty inevitably means that some great songs get left out. Yet, this compilation is as good as any you are ever likely to find. For absolute perfection, I would have preferred In my room or Bluebirds over the mountain (perhaps the best two songs not included) to Caroline no, but this is a minor quibble.