Very Best of [Import, Original recording remastered]

The Beach Boys | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 11, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Emd Int'l
• ASIN: B00005ARS9
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #92,906 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

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' Usa

8. Help Me Rhonda

9. Don't Worry Baby

10. When I Grow Up

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 (Original Mono Version)

18. Caroline No

19. Sloop John B

20. Barbara Ann

See all 30 tracks on this disc

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The strongest collection of their hits, March 22, 2003

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Very Best of (Audio CD)

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.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Very Best of the Beach Boys on One CD, November 23, 2002

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A Beach Boys' fan (Mexico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Very Best of (Audio 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.

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Best of, March 5, 2011

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Spider Monkey (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Very Best of (Audio CD)

You cannot beat the Beach Boys for that fun time summer feeling. I defy you to put on 'Barbara Ann' and not smile like a loon. There are so many good tracks on this album that it keeps the party going and for that nostalgic summer rush, with the great melodies and harmonies that they are famous for, you can't go wrong. A superb best of.

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