Beach Boys - Sounds Of Summer: The Very Best of the Beach Boys (2 LP)

The Beach Boys: Sounds of Summer is a compilation with 15 tracks clocking over 35 minutes of music, now available on double vinyl. This collection features US Top 40 hits: California Girls; I Get Around; Surfin' Safari; Surfin' U.S.A.; Fun, Fun Fun; Little Deuce Coup, and many more. 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