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Their classic songs epitomize the spirit of the California lifestyle and The Beach Boys have become an American icon to a worldwide audience. The Beach Boys’ first hit “Surfin’” (1961) launched a string of chart-topping songs that spans nearly forty years and includes eternal anthems of American youth: “Surfin’ USA”, “Surfer Girl”, “Fun, Fun, Fun”, “I Get Around”, “California Girls”, “Help Me… Read more in Amazon's The Beach Boys Store

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  • Audio CD (15 July 2002)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording remastered
  • Label: Capitol Records
  • ASIN: B0000682VW
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 33,002 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Surfer Girl (2001 - Remaster)The Beach Boys 2:29£0.89
Listen  2. The Warmth Of The Sun (2001 Digital Remaster)The Beach Boys 2:54£0.89
Listen  3. I Get Around (2001 - Remaster)The Beach Boys 2:15£0.89
Listen  4. Don't Worry Baby (2001 Digital Remaster) (Stereo)The Beach Boys 2:50£0.89
Listen  5. In My Room (2001 Digital Remaster)The Beach Boys 2:13£0.89
Listen  6. California Girls (Stereo Remix)The Beach Boys 2:47£0.89
Listen  7. God Only Knows (The Stereo Mix) (1996 Digital Remaster)The Beach Boys 2:53£0.89
Listen  8. Caroline, No (Original Speed/Stereo Mix)The Beach Boys 2:19£0.89
Listen  9. Good Vibrations (2001 - Remaster)The Beach Boys 3:39£0.89
Listen10. Wonderful (24-Bit Remastered 01) (2001 Digital Remaster)The Beach Boys 2:24£0.89
Listen11. Heroes And Villains (2001 - Remaster)The Beach Boys 3:40£0.89
Listen12. Surf's Up (Digitally Remastered 02)The Beach Boys 4:14£0.89
Listen13. Busy Doin' Nothin' (2001 - Remastered)The Beach Boys 3:06£0.89
Listen14. We're Together Again (2001 - Remaster)The Beach Boys 1:47£0.89
Listen15. Time To Get Alone (Digitally Remastered 01)The Beach Boys 2:39£0.89
Listen16. This Whole World (Digitally Remastered 02)The Beach Boys 1:57£0.89
Listen17. Marcella (Digitally Remastered 02)The Beach Boys 3:53£0.89
Listen18. Sail On, Sailor (Digitally Remastered 02)The Beach Boys 3:19£0.89
Listen19. 'Til I Die (Digitally Remastered 02)The Beach Boys 2:42£0.89
Listen20. California Feelin'Brian Wilson 2:48£0.89

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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Holy mother of God, this is good! I've always thought I knew The Beach Boys, due to over-familiarity with all of their early hits and a love of Pet Sounds. Then I got this album. Tracks 10-20 are an absolute revelation and the HDCD sound is astounding. I put this album on with a sense of resignation, and wound up being blown away. In general I think that an author choosing or reading his own works is a catastrophically stupid idea, but Brian Wilson clearly knows his onions, when it comes to choosing the best of his own compositions. The track selection, combined with the incredible sound of the CD, make this the best Beach Boys collection I know of. And then there's "Marcella". Whooooo!
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
great new album 23 July 2002
Format:Audio CD
There have been, at a vague guess, twenty or thirty ?best of...? or ?greatest hits of...? or ?all-time classics of...? the Beach Boys released over recent decades. Usually produced to capitalize on one event or another (in this case the recent slew of music industry accolades bestowed upon him and the re-emergence of Brian Wilson as a functioning, musically-productive human being) they have tended, with few exceptions, to churn out the same ?popular? hits based on the early sun-kissed, surf-drenched top-twenty surf-car-girls formula, with a handful of Pet Sounds tracks and the occasional oddity - such as the awful Rock n Roll Music cover from 15 Big Ones or the appalling Kokomo - thrown in.

This compilation is different, in that the responsibility for the choice of tracks has been given to the man who was the creative force behind the vast majority of them thirty odd years ago: singer, writer, arranger, producer Brian Wilson. As such, this new album deserves a place in the history of Beach Boys releases for that reason alone.

All Beach Boys fans will have their own theories on what a greatest hits compilation should consist of, and probably the collection that has come the closest to providing a reasonable overview is the Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys boxed set, though even that critically-acclaimed collection has its bewildering inclusions and glaring oversights.

This latest compilation though, with its promise of a further insight into the mind of the great Beach Boy, is different in that, refreshingly, it doesn?t aim to please anyone in particular, except perhaps the legion of Brian Wilson Obsessives who feel that every release will bring them closer to their God. What we actually get here is a selection of largely brilliant Beach Boy tunes that is likely - as has been suggested in reviews of various releases ? to ?please both avid Beach Boys fans and listeners new to the group?s music?. This is not ?the best of?, but a selection of songs by Brian Wilson who, judging by the success of his recent ??Presents Pet Sounds Live? activities, seems finally to have recovered most of his emotional equilibrium after decades in the wilderness.

Opening with the simple beauty of Surfer Girl, and closing with the desperate Till I Die (and with a rather nice recently-recorded California Feelin tacked on the end of the album ? and why not?), the tracks chosen are on the whole examples of the perfect pop synthesis of melody, arrangement and vocal performances, and as such are a great pleasure to listen to. Apart from well-known up-tempo hits such as I Get Around and California Girls, there is also the gorgeous Busy Doin Nothin from the Friends LP and the intriguing inclusion of Wonderful from Smiley Smile, the curious, hurried, unfinished album that, released in the wake of the extraordinary Good Vibrations single, persuaded an unfortunate number of industry and executives and fans alike that the Beach Boys, and Brian Wilson were - in the face of a more hard-edged, politically-aware rock n roll sensibility - history.

What ??Classics Selected by Brian Wilson? offers is a curious, offbeat selection of favorites that, as Wilson admits in the accompanying booklet, was difficult to make and would have probably have been different if he?d chosen them on a different day. This album is not a record of the Beach Boys best work and, gives only a small part of the story of sublime beauty and eccentric juvenilia that have been the hallmark of Brian Wilson?s career both with and without the Beach Boys. However, with its 24 bit HDCD remastering all the tracks sparkle just a little bit more and, if you want to know how Brian Wilson felt on February 11th 2002 when he chose these tracks (which I and I suspect an astonishing number of others do) then buy this and enjoy.

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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful
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There are many Beach Boys compilations around, the vast majority packed with the earlier surf-based pop hits with only a passing glance at the real gems. This however, is a completely different proposition. Twenty classic tunes hand picked by the man who created them - Brian Wilson. Those of you unfamiliar with the songs on this album are in for a treat, while we fanatics can finally have all our favourites on one disc!
From the early longing of "Surfer Girl" to the despair of "'Til I Die" this collection finally does justice to the song-writing, arrangement and melodic genius of Wilson. The opening French Horn motif of "God only knows" still brings me out in goosebumps after several hundred listens. "Don't worry baby" features the most breathtaking harmonies ever recorded and a beautiful lead vocal from Brian. "Good Vibrations" still sounds as fresh and innovative now as it did in 1967. Less familiar tracks like "Wonderful" and "Busy doin' nothin'" are subtle treats that will buzz around in your head for weeks. If you know little of Brian Wilson then buy this record, you will see why such luminaries as Paul McCartney speak so highly of him (McCartney chose "God only knows" as his favourite song of all time), and why he will be remembered as the foremost songwriter of his era. If you are a fan then you already know this! Enjoy.
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