Synopsis
Select BGM is a video game music podcast based in Salt Lake City, Utah focused on video game related music from all eras.
Episodes
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I'm Not Saying It's Aliens, but It's Aliens
09/01/2016 Duration: 01h16sBaby, if you ever wondered, wondered whatever became of them. They're living on the air in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City's own Select BGM. Rich and Jon aren't saying season four kicks off with Aliens, but it does. They rip a galaxy far, far away a new black hole while reflecting on the holiday season and going for the high score on "F" bomb drops. Welcome back listeners to another season of Select BGM.
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Best of Season 3
04/12/2015 Duration: 56minHigh five! It's the best of Season 3, so put it in fifth and floor it through one hundred percent pure adrenaline. It's been pure keen. No, it's greater than that. We'll catch you on the flipside in about a month. Thanks for listening, all five of you!
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WTFBBQROFLCOPTER - Indie Game Themes
20/11/2015 Duration: 59minThe end is near for season three at Select BGM as this is the last themed show. Jon and Rich pretend they know the current scene of gaming by selecting their favorites in the genre of Indie Games. What these cats in their late thirties do know is that MP3.com was a thing, KLF was totally 90s, and Iron Maiden and DuckTales shirts are awesome because they actually love the respective media. Get ready to fail Thanksgiving Select BGM style.
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Flights of Fancy
13/11/2015 Duration: 55minRide the dragon, smash some trees, and be wowed by moon signals in this week's episode. Rich and Jon talk Fallout 4, not following your dreams, and our top 5 James Bond movies. The great space coaster is back again bringing flighty tunes you're sure to fancy.
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What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse
23/10/2015 Duration: 56minTake a ride down the midnight highway in your 3D car and turn up the Select BGM. This week Jon and Rich discuss the definitive top 5 Sega Master System games with Tamarian gusto. Fallen angels curse out their oppressive overlord to a deathly ballet. Oh what a horrible night to have a curse!
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Disorderly Conduct
16/10/2015 Duration: 55minRich and Jon kick up their radio voices for a mosh pit of musical maladies that defy the status quo. We have a Select BGM first as a whole segment is dedicated to anime speak, much to Rich's dismay. There's a hint of burger time in the air and a black Whopper stole your religious freedom at Select BGM. SEGA!
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Grab Bag 2
11/10/2015 Duration: 01h04minSelect BGM is going random in preparation for the Day of the Dead, going higher and higher on a space experience like no other. With the help of listeners like you our telethon is tapping into all 80 gigabytes of our mind-drives and delivering you something that'll tap you into the digital Age of Aquarius.
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Historically Inaccurate
02/10/2015 Duration: 52minImplanted memories of what wasn't make one reminiscent for the times that weren't. This week at Select BGM we present you with the theme Historically Inaccurate, where our theme speaks for itself so that we don't have to. Rich got back from his Alaskan vacation, and likes a beer buzz in the morning. Jon pronounces words the way he wishes because that's the American way. Settle into the Paris of your dreams and listen to this baroquely futuristic mess.
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Resistance is Futile
18/09/2015 Duration: 57minThis week is a death blossom of cray-cray. You may assimilate, but your individuality will conquer all with these tunes of hopeless destiny. Why the sad face? It can also be happy destiny, but it's written in stone. Do you want to be a lone snowflake of expression, or a powerful tidal wave of determinism? It doesn't matter, because you have minions of VG tunes to do your bidding. Tune in and Ys way back, cause Select BGM is your hammock regardless of the path. Today was tomorrow yesterday.
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A Quintet of Focus
11/09/2015 Duration: 45minThis week we focus specifically on a sextet of Quintet games. Welcome to the NFL season! Rich rolls his eyes but is happy that Jon entered the modern gaming age with his recent purchase of a PS4. Rich will continue to game with the more advanced PC. With the new era of gaming at our ears maybe there will be less SNES music on the show but not today! Come for the SPC700 but stay for the Quintet at Select BGM.
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A Complex Industry
04/09/2015 Duration: 56minMillions of miles of commercial piles clog up our religious freedom. Lace up your boots and fasten the velcro straps on your fingerless gloves. Travel back to the 80s for some Commodore 64 and play some Atari Lynx on the bullet train. Hit the stops along the way and only stop for the best German synthesizers in this episode of Select BGM.
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It's Like a Jungle Sometimes
20/08/2015 Duration: 47minPop up your white leather collar, grab your switch blade, hit the neon streets and let your true nature shine. You found the cure for cancer, but lost it, and there are no shoulders to cry on. It's like a jungle sometimes, and whether it's your birthday or not you better be prepared for the ambush, in the rain forest or in a shopping mall. Push play on tape, get your malaria shot, and get ready for adventure with Select BGM.
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Themes of the Holy
14/08/2015 Duration: 53minHoly Diver, Batman! It's Select BGM! This week's theme is brought to you by Reverence. Songs of the holy, of sanctuary, of mono and polytheistic deity. Ever think how Heavy Metal is actually Christian music? Also, discussions of Amiga copy parties and old school copyright protection. Jon has run out of things to discuss while Rich waxes philosophically about existential pondering. Heaven can wait for another day at Select BGM!
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Water Themes
07/08/2015 Duration: 50minSurf's up dude! It's season 3 and the tide is high for some water themes. We've fished up some good ones. The waves are big, so grip your orange bible and quietly mutter the Litany Against Fear, if you can remember it. By the power of Michael Jackson and Masonic the Hedgehog your glass of gin and tonic will stay topped off as the water of life takes you away into a new and exciting season of Select BGM.
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Best of Season 2
26/06/2015 Duration: 01h10minWe've reached the end of yet another season and it's time for some best of. The Riker beard is growing out and even Wesley is joining in on the fun because gaming is serious business. Sit down funny and put on your headphones. No need to be uptight, a tachyon pulse will make it all right. It's the Season 2 finale episode and we'll be back in August to bring you a new and improved Season 3, where the charm will surely be. Thanks for listening to Select BGM.
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The Silver Screen
12/06/2015 Duration: 46minGrab your mower and hop in the van, because it's time for another episode of this simple video game music show. With the power of virtual reality, substandard selections from the silver screen make their way into your home. It won't help you meld with reality and make a phone call that rings every phone in the world. But hey, if you want to have a one sided conversation with this show, push play and ease back into an adventure that surely won't make you any smarter.
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Jazzy Funk Gives Me the Fusion Blues
05/06/2015 Duration: 01h07minWe're keepin' cool with Coolidge in this episode. Got the right idea to pick up some baby vamps and take 'em for a spin in our struggle buggy down to the gin joint where everything's Jake. While there we'll explore video game music in the Jazz genre; composed and inspired by. Fallout 4 has just been announced and we're feeling the post apocalyptic 50s groove. We also rap about 90s fads, and how terrible Jurassic World looks. Get your bathtub mint julep ready and ease into the Select BGM Speakeasy.
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Puzzling
30/05/2015 Duration: 47minStick it to the man, kick back, and listen to some groovy tunes from this mess of an episode. There is logic to it, but you'll need to wrap your head around it and then you'll be hooked. Your legs may fall asleep, but you'll just keep going, and if you aren't careful, you may need treatment, or just to wipe, stand up carefully and wait for the pins and needles to go away. There is no better way to chill than with Select BGM.
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Suites, Movements, and Medleys
16/05/2015 Duration: 53minI'll take the large combination please, with some beans and cheese. Later on it'll surely work up a stink and make quite a movement. Welcome to this week's podcast, where we each select a suite of music from a game, a single movement, and then a medley of pure magical sound showers. Don't blow your brains out because the rain is keeping you from mowing your lawn. Just stay inside and play some Axiom verge so you can be en vogue to the hippest ensemble in the modern remake era.
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Manimal
02/05/2015 Duration: 56minIt's a bird! It's a plane! Well yeah, and much more. Special guest Eli drops knowledge on extra-planar beings and this episode morphs into dobermans, gremlins, goblins, panthers, and a whole menagerie of all things not quite human. And I want, and I need, and I love, Manimal!