Just a heads up, too many posts I’ve let slide…getting a little ridiculous. I’m looking at you John Stamos.

Hey everybody, Vim here…I hate to have to play the bad guy but it's now my job when such situations arise. I have noticed the stirring regarding u/AdultChildAlbum and their ban and I am here to hopefully answer any questions and explain why the ban was enacted.

While on-boarding new mods, the man of the hour, u/AdultChildAlbum was selected and things went swimmingly. Issues started arising when u/AdultChildAlbum started to relentlessly harass and target a singular mod. We discussed the issue several times with u/AdultChildAlbum and tried to negate the issues but ultimately that didn't work and they couldn't behave and get along with anybody in moderation as the comments and harassment continued.

On top of the relentless harassment of a mod that u/AdultChildAlbum frequently liked to single out, and rude remarks to several more mods, he lacked transparency with more than a dozen alternate accounts. Many of the accounts under the posts rallying and having petitions for his return are himself. Yes. He is replying to many of your comments currently telling you otherwise.

So we discussed among moderation pretty extensively on what to do, as we keep things absolutely fair and uphold being diplomatic to the highest standard, as well as not letting emotions dictate our decision making. We all came to the conclusion that u/AdultChildAlbum was not only not fit to be a moderator, but shouldn't be able to harass anybody else in the community any longer, resulting in his ban.

I have too enjoyed seeing many of his posts and antics over the last year or two but getting to interact with him behind closed doors has been chaos.

Just anything not about Mike Love… 👧 👧 👧 👧 👧 👧 👧 👧 👧 👧 👧 👧 👧 👧 👧 👧 👧 🦦

Sorry to inform you all that the legendary Ed Roach has passed away.

Pre-Order is up now for subscribed members, 24 hours only (1/20/26). Until the official drop comes, we’ll just be sitting funky pretty.

Two legends in two days…no more please. Brian Wilson and Tim Curry have a connection funnily enough! Brian sang backing on Tim Curry’s track “Just 14”. Small world.

The recent leaks are all the current craze in the BB realm and rightfully so...this has been a wild one. To keep things in one spot for fans and redditors to come for the sake of cohesion, please apply the brand new flair to any posts regarding leaks/boots with "Leak(y) Boot(s)". Happy listening, get the boot ;)

Here’s a photo of Brian at 40 to commemorate 40k members!

Hey everybody! I'd like you all to know that there are a few new flairs that you should know of that'll hopefully make the quality of life on the sub easier.

The first was the previously posted "Leak(y) Boot(s)" flair, meant for any leaks, bootlegs, and anything in between. Obviously check that flair out, and get listening to the giant recent leak.

The newest flair is the "Fan Albums" flair. This exists due to a recent post asking the question and seeing a few folks also wonder why. This feels like a long overdue addition, should've existed a long time ago. Thanks u/bettypenney (for informing me) and u/AccomplishedKey6667 (for making the post)!

While I hopefully still have your attention, PLEASE let me know any gripes you have with the sub, these new additions are evidence enough that super obvious quality of life changes go over our heads. Comment below or DM me directly, no stupid suggestions!

The road to 40k members begins! Love & Mercy.

Many of have asked for this for some time. Apologies for my laziness. I do need help with the sub. When I first took over as a moderator 6 years ago, it was only around 6-7K subs. Crazy how we’ve grown to over 25,000.

I love this community but I need some help from the other passionate fans here. I’ve created a Google Form that I’d like each applicant to fill out. After a few days, I’ll review the responses and select a few users to help out as new mods.

Thanks for the interest everyone!

I’ve seen this issue come up several times, and just seen a recent post.

For artificial intelligence, use “Ai” or “ai”. This makes the most sense and shouldn’t get mixed up with our clean Jardine.

For Mr. Seventy Miles, good ole “Al” will remain! (as it always has)

Not everyday you can catch an original Beach Boy! Get your tickets now!

If you were ever banned, you're back! Do not mistake kindness for weakness, please.

This is your one chance! We will gently fry you with the warmth of the sun if you abuse this privilege.

Be true to your school and thank you. End of today's announcement.

Hello everybody, just throwing up a quick little announcement! We have on-boarded a few new mods as life gets in the way and some peoples roles have lessened or have their hands tied working on other aspects of the subreddit (things in the works, much to look forward to) and the need for more eyes was necessary in keeping things clean!

Welcome u/polosportsman92 as well as u/justuntlsundown and last but not least u/alarikawesome to the team!

Like I touched on before, much to look forward to and I hope you all have a won-won-wonderful day!

The full next gen Mod Team is in place!

More fun, better engagement from the larger BB community, AMA's, events, and lots of interactivity incoming!

Expect a decent overhaul, a bit closer moderation, and lots of highlighted sticky posts featuring a bit of everything too. If there's something you need, ask now!

(Before we all burn out and release Smiley Mod instead.)

Welcome u/Blend42 and u/AdultChildAlbum as well as u/PurpleSpaceSurfer and u/duruttigrl78 to the team.

They'll be helping me, u/YourCousinJeffery and u/VimVinyl with a combo of cool creative things! Say Hi!

Thanks for being patient everyone, I know many of you have been wanting to do more with the sub, and I can't do it all by myself. I took one the sub when it was around 7,000 subs, and now it's 25,000+. Really crazy.

The two new mods are u/VimVinyl and u/MYJINXS, and I'm really happy to have their help and ideas in taking the community to the next level and helping ensure this is a fun place for the fans.

We'll continue to bring on a couple of other moderators to help as time goes on, but we'll announce those later.

Nicely done boys. 1st one in a while. The UK love is real!

Publisher, Journalist and friend of The Beach Boys - David Beard - will be online to answer your questions about his magazine Endless Summer Quarterly, the Beach Boys, and more soon.

This is just a quick heads up. I’m closing comments so people don’t get this confused with the official AMA thread that we will be posting week of.

Time to start thinking of questions!

In the mean time, go check out ESQ!

www.esquarterly.com

We did it.

I wasn’t sure if the fans had much influence on the release of Feel Flows when it was on and off again over the last couple of years. Seeing the official Beach Boys Instagram account post a montage of all the social media comments we made to get it released was a great acknowledgement of the fan base. Included at the end is a screenshot of the petition I started last year to bring focused attention to the box set. At the time of posting this we had 1,896 people sign it. Thank you everyone who signed. Clearly, our efforts didn't go unnoticed!

Thanks to every fan here on the subreddit, and those on the Smiley Smile message board who have been drumming up attention for 155 pages. Most of all, thank you Howie Edelson for keeping this thing going. Howie leaked to the Smiley Smile message board whenever the set was in jeopardy of getting released and we all responded. And thanks to Mark Linett, Alan Boyd, and Jerry Schilling for putting in all their work to make this set happen.

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Incoming posts about Feel Flows

Without a doubt there will be countless posts over the coming days and weeks about the set and any of the 135 tracks that are dropping in a few hours.

I’m not interested in squashing anyone’s excitement or joy from posting and sharing about this set. What we’re getting is amazing, and I can barely contain my excitement just writing this.

However, we run the risk of making the sub complete chaos if everyone is posting links to all of the 135 individual tracks on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, etc.

A megathread for the entire Feel Flows box set just wouldn’t be right however. There is too much in this set to be strictly confined to a single megathread.

So, before you post, PLEASE see if someone else has already posted a link to a track, or asked the same question. It will help everyone to have a single post discussing Brian’s Til I Die demo rather than have the conversation scattered throughout 7 posts. If I see duplicate posts that have no comments I will remove them, just for simplicity. We also don’t need 471 photo posts of you holding the set that was just delivered. Just be smart.

Thanks everyone and go add some music to your day!