The Beach Boys - Very Best Of The Beach Boys Sounds Of Summer (2003) (320) [DJ]

Artist: The Beach Boys
Title: Very Best Of The Beach Boys: Sounds Of Summer
Year Of Release: 2003
Label: Capitol Catalog
Genre: Pop Rock, Surg Rock, Classic Rock
Quality: MP3 320kbps stereo
Total Time: 01:15:42
Total Size: 173.81 MB

After gaining control of the Beach Boys' entire catalog (including all the band's post-1969 material), Capitol released two-fers covering their out of print '70s records and a Brian Wilson-selected compilation titled Classics, then later, this hits compilation the longest single-disc American collection ever seen. With all but five tracks coming from their 1962-1969 peak, and every one a Top 40 hit, Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of the Beach Boys is also the best, a worthy digital-age successor to previous classics like Endless Summer and Greatest Hits, Vol. 1. Though the songs don't appear in chronological order, the compilers improved the concept of a hits compilation by bunching the disc into minisets one of classic adolescence songs ("Be True to Your School," "When I Grow Up [To Be a Man]," "In My Room"), one of surfing songs ("Surfin' Safari," "Surfin' U.S.A.," "Surfer Girl"), one of frat-boy classics ("Dance, Dance, Dance," "Barbara Ann"), and another including selections from their masterpiece Pet Sounds ("God Only Knows," "Sloop John B.," "Wouldn't It Be Nice"). Nearly any compilation on an important artist can be argued, but it's the rare one that covers as many bases and leaves out so few classics as Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of the Beach Boys.


01. California Girls (Remix/Remastered)
02. I Get Around (Remastered)
03. Surfin' Safari (Remastered)
04. Surfin' U.S.A. (Remastered)
05. Fun, Fun, Fun (Remastered)
06. Surfer Girl (Remastered)
07. Don't Worry Baby
08. Little Deuce Coupe (Remastered)
09. Shut Down (Stereo/Remastered 2003)
10. Help Me, Rhonda (Remastered)
11. Be True To Your School (Remastered)
12. When I Grow Up (To Be A Man) (Remastered)
13. In My Room (Remastered)
14. God Only Knows (Remastered)
15. Sloop John B (Remastered)
16. Wouldn't It Be Nice (Remastered)
17. Getcha Back
18. Come Go With Me
19. Rock And Roll Music
20. Dance, Dance, Dance (2003 Stereo Mix)
21. Barbara Ann (Remastered)
22. Do You Wanna Dance? (Remastered)
23. Heroes And Villains (Remastered)
24. Good Timin'
25. Kokomo
26. Do It Again (Remastered 2001)
27. Wild Honey (Remastered)
28. Darlin' (Remastered)
29. I Can Hear Music
30. Good Vibrations (Remastered)