Released in 2000 on Buddha Records, the compilation marked the first digital remaster of the band's material taken from the original multi-track master tapes, which had been rediscovered after having been lost for decades.

The album contains every Top 40 hit single enjoyed by the band in the United States including its only chart-topper, "Summer in the City."

[8] The compilation features 26 tracks,[1] including the Lovin' Spoonful's first seven singles, all of which reached the U.S. Top Ten upon initial release.

[2] In his review of the album for AllMusic, Hal Horowitz described its sound as possessing "a crispness and definition previously unheard", and he counted it as the band's most essential one-disc compilation.

[1] The critic Robert Christgau described it as a slight improvement on the band's 1990 compilation Anthology, and he added that there are only a few weak tracks in the selection which "slow down its historical mission of evoking the balmy upsurge to the Summer of Love like no other body of music".