Player Select
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Player Select is the second studio album by American comedy supergroup Starbomb, composed of Dan Avidan and Brian Wecht of American comedy duo Ninja Sex Party and Flash animator and Internet personality Arin Hanson.[2] The album was released December 16, 2014 on iTunes, Amazon Music, Spotify and CDBaby. Following in the direction of the previous album, Player Select is mostly a video game parody album featuring the often-provocative adult comedy of Ninja Sex Party and incorporating the video-game humor of Hanson.
Background
Starbomb was a very hinted-at project with leaks and rumors circulating in June and July 2013 shortly after Avidan joined the online Let's Play webseries Game Grumps. It was half-confirmed by Avidan during his guest appearance on the July 12, 2013, stream of Polaris video gaming show Friendzone!, stating that he was thinking of names for a new music project he was starting with Brian Wecht, his partner in Ninja Sex Party.
Due to the majority of the first Starbomb album's criticism being aimed at its constant use of extremely sexual lyrics, Player Select takes a different approach by severely reducing the amount of sexuality in its lyrics. This was a conscious, self-imposed challenge that Hanson, Avidan, and Wecht agreed upon while writing the album in an effort to stay fresh and avoid repeating themselves. The resulting album focuses more on satirizing plot or character details regarding certain games, such as how Luigi consistently questions the violent nature of the Super Smash Bros. franchise throughout the song "Smash!"
Promotion
Player Select was also a half-confirmed album in a statement from the track "Outro" from the previous album. No other news was heard of the album until fan speculation of a second album started circulating in October and November 2014. The album and its release date, cover art and title were finally confirmed by all three members of Starbomb via three consequent videos featuring the group in their Los Angeles studio, each containing a separate snippet from one track of the album. The video that Hanson posted contained a snippet from "The Hero of Rhyme," Avidan and Wecht's video had a snippet from "Mortal Kombat High," and the video on the Game Grumps channel had a snippet of "Robots in Need of Disguise." Included in each video were links to pre-order the album digitally through iTunes and Amazon Music, or the physical CD through CDBaby.
Track listing
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Personnel
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Charts
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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| US Top Comedy Albums (Billboard)[4] | 3 |
Release history
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| Australia[5] | December 16, 2014 | Digital download, stream | Page Template:Color/styles.css has no content.Self-released | Page Template:Color/styles.css has no content.none |
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| United States[7] | December 16, 2014 | CD | 889211198962 |
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Jeffries, David. "Player Select". AllMusic. Retrieved July 21, 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Napierski, Steve (December 19, 2013). "Luigi's Ballad". Dueling Analogs. Retrieved March 15, 2014.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Player Select (CD). Starbomb. 2014.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Starbomb". iTunes AU. Archived from the original on January 16, 2015. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Starbomb". iTunes Store. Archived from the original on January 16, 2015. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Starbomb". iTunes US. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
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