Name: Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of the Beach Boys
Brand: Capitol
SKU: 826225
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Sounds of Summer

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Album: Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of the Beach Boys
#	Song Title	Time
1)	California Girls - (2002 Stereo Mix)
2)	I Get Around
3)	Surfin' Safari
4)	Surfin' U.S.A.
5)	Fun, Fun, Fun
6)	Surfer Girl
7)	Don't Worry Baby - (single version)
8)	Little Deuce Coupe
9)	Shut Down - (New Stereo Mix)
10)	Help Me, Rhonda - (single version)
11)	Be True to Your School - (single version)
12)	When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)
13)	In My Room
14)	God Only Knows
15)	Sloop John B
16)	Wouldn't It Be Nice
17)	Getcha Back
18)	Come Go with Me
19)	Rock & Roll Music
20)	Dance, Dance, Dance
21)	Barbara Ann - (single version)
22)	Do You Wanna Dance
23)	Heroes and Villains - (2002 Stereo Mix)
24)	Good Timin'
25)	Kokomo
26)	Do It Again
27)	Wild Honey
28)	Darlin'
29)	I Can Hear Music
30)	Good Vibrations

Album: Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of the Beach Boys
#	Song Title	Time
1)	California Girls - (2002 Stereo Mix)
2)	I Get Around
3)	Surfin' Safari
4)	Surfin' U.S.A.
5)	Fun, Fun, Fun
6)	Surfer Girl
7)	Don't Worry Baby - (single version)
8)	Little Deuce Coupe
9)	Shut Down - (New Stereo Mix)
10)	Help Me, Rhonda - (single version)
11)	Be True to Your School - (single version)
12)	When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)
13)	In My Room
14)	God Only Knows
15)	Sloop John B
16)	Wouldn't It Be Nice
17)	Getcha Back
18)	Come Go with Me
19)	Rock & Roll Music
20)	Dance, Dance, Dance
21)	Barbara Ann - (single version)
22)	Do You Wanna Dance
23)	Heroes and Villains - (2002 Stereo Mix)
24)	Good Timin'
25)	Kokomo
26)	Do It Again
27)	Wild Honey
28)	Darlin'
29)	I Can Hear Music
30)	Good Vibrations

Performer Notes

The Beach Boys: Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston, David Marks.
Producers include: Brian Wilson, Murry Wilson, Nik Venet, Steve Levine, The Beachboys.
Recorded between 1962 & 1988.
Includes liner notes by Anthony DeCurtis.
Personnel: Carl Wilson (vocals, guitar); Dennis Wilson (vocals, drums); Dean Torrence, Al Jardine, Mike Love , Brian Wilson (vocals); David Marks (guitar).
Audio Remixer: Mark Linett.
Liner Note Author: Anthony DeCurtis.
Recording information: 1962-1985.
This collection perfectly captures on a single disc the career arc of one of America's most important pop groups. Stuffing 30 songs into a small space, SOUNDS OF SUMMER checks in with these West Coast sunshine pop wizards at each phase of their development. There's the early chicks-and-cars, Chuck Berry-influenced material ("I Get Around," "Little Deuce Coupe"), the surf songs on which the Beach Boys' early reputation is based (the genre's national anthem "Surfin' Safari," the surprisingly transcendent "Surfer Girl"), and more.
Of course the celebrated "teenage symphonies to God" era is covered nicely, with such untouchable moments as "God Only Knows," "Good Vibrations," and "Wouldn't It Be Nice." The fact that the band didn't dry up and blow away after the 1960s is not lost on SOUNDS OF SUMMER either, as witnessed by the inclusion of Chuck Berry cover "Rock and Roll Music" and the latter-day summer-fun hit "Kokomo."

Professional Reviews

Rolling Stone (6/12/03, p.98) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...The overall effect of this thirty-track overview of the Beach Boys' career is similar to that of the Beatles' 1: Both compilations strive to blow you away with the sheer amount of hit singles at hand, and both succeed..."