- Artist: The Beach Boys
- Album: Icon
- Bitrate: 269kbps avg
- Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
- Label: Capitol
- Genre: Rock
- Size: 54.85 megs
- PlayTime: 0h 27min 19sec total
- Rip Date: 2013-06-14
- Store Date: 2013-03-19
- Track List:
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- 01. Good Vibrations 3:37
- 02. Fun, Fun, Fun 2:19
- 03. Little Deuce Coupe 1:39
- 04. Wouldn't It Be Nice 2:32
- 05. Help Me, Rhonda 2:47
- 06. God Only Knows 2:52
- 07. California Girls 2:45
- 08. I Get Around 2:13
- 09. Dance, Dance, Dance 2:01
- 10. Be True To Your School 2:08
- 11. Surfer Girl 2:26
- Release Notes:
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- The Icon series stands for quality in budget-line collections, always including
- original hits and very little filler, even though the track listings top out at
- 12 songs. The Beach Boys' version is no different, beginning at their peak with
- "Good Vibrations" and working (roughly) backward from 1967, picking up most of
- their biggest hits, whether Baroque ("Wouldn't It Be Nice"), surf ("Surfer
- Girl"), or hot rod ("Little Deuce Coupe"). Even "God Only Knows" makes an
- appearance, not because it was a chart-topper but because its quality production
- and angelic vocal by Carl Wilson made it a perennial on best-of song lists for
- years to come. Icon is a short, sharp shot of hits from the surf titans, perfect
- for beginning any smart '60s pop collection but inevitably leaving the listener
- wanting more of what made the Beach Boys the first or second best pop group of
- the decade.