This is the album that wonderfully and lovingly summarizes the best of the Beach Boys. Although not strictly considered a greatest hits album, it is essentially that, a sequentially ordered regurgitation of each of their releases, most of them, of course, monster hits. It is all here, folks, from the original number "Surfing Safari'" to "Surfer Girl", from "Catch A Wave" (which Jan and Dean later stole the melody and chord progressions for "Sidewalk Surfing", a major hit for them) to "The Warmth Of The Sun". yet the Beach Boys really weren't about surfing or even the relaxed southern California lifestyle. What they were about was fell-good music, a kind of instant nostalgia for a Hollywood-type confection. While I have always loved listening to Beach Boy music, I have never taken any of their music seriously, at least not in the way one would consider the Beatles or any of a number of singer-songwriters.