Digitally remastered collection from the quintessential California Pop band who have withstood the test of time and remain one of America's most treasured musical acts. This 30-track set features all the hits you know and love, including "Wouldn't It Be Nice", "Help Me Rhonda", "God Only Knows", "Caroline No", "Sloop John B.", "Good Vibrations", "California Girls", "I Get Around", "Rock & Roll Music", "Then I Kissed Her", and many more.

• Artist: The Beach Boys
• Format: Audio CD
• Genre: Pop Rock, Rock, Pop

1. Surfin' Safari
2. Surfin' U.S.A.
3. Surfer Girl
4. Little Deuce Coupe
5. I Get Around
6. Fun, Fun, Fun
7. Dance, Dance, Dance
8. When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)
9. Dance, Dance, Dance
10. California Girls
11. Help Me Rhonda
12. Do You Wanna Dance?
13. Drive-In
14. I'm So Young
15. Kiss Me, Baby
16. She Knows Me Too Well
17. Don't Worry Baby
18. Little Deuce Coupe
19. In My Room
20. Be True to Your School
21. Ballad of Ole' Betsy
22. Our Car Club
23. Why Do Fools Fall in Love
24. Girl Don't Tell Me
25. Help Me Rhonda
26. California Girls
27. Then I Kissed Her
28. Rock & Roll Music
29. Good Vibrations
30. God Only Knows
31. Caroline No
32. Sloop John B.
33. Wouldn't It Be Nice
34. Kokomo

• Audio: Digitally remastered

The cynical may question just how many Beach Boys greatest hits albums are enough. Non-cynics, however, will appreciate what makes The Very Best Of... unique. This is the first single-disc collection to feature such a large cross-selection of hits from the group's entire career, spanning 1962's "Surfin' Safari" through to 1988's "Kokomo". All 30 tracks, spanning several label changes, are probably now as identifiable as the national anthem to anyone with radio or TV access. The fact that the tracks aren't in chronological order helps make for a fresh listening experience, as does the crisp digital sound. And yet these songs—even those that are more than four decades old—always sound strangely fresh and will likely remain so as long as there are beaches, young people and that symbolic season of freedom and dreams. Perfect for those casual fans not yet ready to spring for the individual albums, The Very Best of the Beach Boys is, in many ways, a better representation of this legendary band's art than Elvis' 30 No 1 Hits and the Beatles' 1 were of the King and the Fab Four. --Bill Holdship