Player Select

Player Select
Studio album by Starbomb
Released	December 16, 2014
Recorded	Summer 2014 in Los Angeles, United States
Genre	Comedy hip hop, synthpop, nerdcore
Length	25:55
Label	Self-released
Producer	Brian Wecht
Starbomb chronology
Starbomb (2013) Player Select (2014)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

Player Select is the second studio album by American synthpop comedy supergroup Starbomb. 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 a video game parody album featuring the often-provocative adult comedy of Ninja Sex Party and incorporating the video-game humor of Egoraptor.

Background

Starbomb was a very hinted-at project with leaks and rumors circulating in June and July of 2013 shortly after Avidan joined the online Let's Play webseries Game Grumps. Starbomb 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, avoid repeating themselves, and take the original album's criticism seriously. 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 of 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

All songs written and composed by Arin Hanson, Leigh Daniel Avidan and Brian Wecht. 

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Intro"	1:24
2.	"Smash!" (featuring Markiplier & Emily Hughes)	2:37
3.	"Robots in Need of Disguise"	2:32
4.	"The Hero of Rhyme"	1:57
5.	"Toad Joins the Band"	0:54
6.	"The New Pokérap"	1:51
7.	"Glass Joe's Title Fight"	2:18
8.	"Mortal Kombat High"	2:18
9.	"Inky's Lament"	1:20
10.	"God of No More"	2:16
11.	"Atari Mystery Hour"	0:41
12.	"Minecraft is for Everyone" (featuring Markus Persson)	2:04
13.	"The Simple Plot of Metal Gear Solid"	2:46
14.	"Outro"	0:37
Total length:		25:55

Personnel

Starbomb Leigh Daniel Avidan – vocals Arin Hanson – vocals Brian Wecht – music, production Additional musicians Mark Fischbach – vocals (track 2) Emily Hughes – background vocals (track 2) Markus Persson – background vocals (track 12)

Additional personnel Dan Castellani  – mixing David Dominguez – engineer Hans Dekline – mastering

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2014)	Peak position
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[2]	2
US Comedy Albums (Billboard)[3]	1
US Rap Albums (Billboard)[4]	4

Year-end charts

Chart (2015)	Position
US Comedy Albums (Billboard)[5]	3

Release history

Region	Date	Format	Label	Catalog no.
Australia[6]	December 16, 2014	Digital download, stream	Self-released	none
United Kingdom[7]
United States[8]
United States[8]	December 16, 2014	CD		889211198962

References

1. Jeffries, David. "Player Select". AllMusic. Retrieved July 21, 2015.
2. "Starbomb - Chart History - Independent". Billboard.com. Retrieved March 24, 2015.
3. "Comedy Albums". Billboard.com. Retrieved 6 May 2015.
4. "Starbomb - Chart History - Rap". Billboard.com. Retrieved March 24, 2015.
5. "Comedy Albums: Year End". Billboard.com. Retrieved December 5, 2015.
6. "Starbomb". iTunes AU. Apple Inc. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
7. "Starbomb". Apple Inc. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
8. "Starbomb". iTunes US. Apple Inc. Retrieved 20 December 2014.