20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of The Shangri-Las

This 2002 compilation from the 20th Century Masters series collects the Shangri-Las' signature mid 1960s girl-group pop, featuring breathy lead vocals, lush orchestral arrangements and melodramatic teenage narratives. The tracks fuse pop and early rock and roll elements with occasional spoken-word passages and a theatrical production style that helped define the teenage tragedy strand of 1960s pop. It functions as a concise overview of the group's dark, dramatic sound rather than a complete career anthology.