17-649: One Good Reason may refer to: One Good Reason (album) , an album by Paul Carrack, or the title song One Good Reason (song) , the Dutch entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1999, performed in English by Marlayne "One Good Reason", song by The Alan Parsons Project from Ammonia Avenue , 1984 "One Good Reason", song by The Tubes from Love Bomb , 1985 "One Good Reason", song by Dru Hill from Enter
34-474: A 2016 article in Tedium , Ernie Smith wrote: "AllMusic may have been one of the most ambitious sites of the early-internet era—and it's one that is fundamental to our understanding of pop culture. Because, the thing is, it doesn't just track reviews or albums. It tracks styles, genres, and subgenres, along with the tone of the music and the platforms on which the music is sold. It then connects that data together, in
51-404: A stop and start tempo which comes across as unique to a certain extent." But he castigated the rest of the record, saying that "while the songs are well-written lyrically, they're dispensed rather half-heartedly from a musical standpoint" and "It's apparent in tracks like 'Fire With Fire' and 'Give Me a Chance' that Paul Carrack has reached the point of pop pedestrianism." Credits are adapted from
68-507: A way that can intelligently tell you about an entire type of music, whether a massive genre like classical, or a tiny one like sadcore ." In 1996, seeking to further develop its web-based businesses, Alliance Entertainment Corp. bought All Music from Erlewine for a reported $ 3.5 million. He left the company after its sale. Alliance filed for bankruptcy in 1999, and its assets were acquired by Ron Burkle 's Yucaipa Equity Fund. In 1999, All Music relocated from Big Rapids to Ann Arbor , where
85-487: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages One Good Reason (album) One Good Reason is the third solo studio album by the English singer-songwriter Paul Carrack , then a member of the rock supergroup Mike + The Mechanics . It was released in November 1987 by Chrysalis Records , five years after his previous studio album, Suburban Voodoo (1982). In
102-421: Is owned by RhythmOne . AllMusic was launched as All-Music Guide by Michael Erlewine , a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought
119-475: The All Music Guide framework, and recruited his nephew, writer Stephen Thomas Erlewine , to develop editorial content. In 1993, Chris Woodstra joined the staff as an engineer. A "record geek" who had written for alternative weeklies and fanzines, his main qualification was an "encyclopedic knowledge of music". 1,400 subgenres of music were created, a feature that became central to the site's utility. In
136-621: The Dru , 1998 "One Good Reason", song by Gary Moore from Dark Days in Paradise , 1997 "One Good Reason", song by Celldweller from Celldweller "One Good Reason", song by Bryan Adams, B-side to " Straight from the Heart ," 1983 "One Good Reason", song by The Keys , 1981 "One Good Reason", song by Mike Love , 1981 "One Good Reason", song by Poison Girls , 1983 "One Good Reason", song by The Swingers , 1979 Topics referred to by
153-685: The US, " Don't Shed a Tear " (which became a Top 10 hit, peaking at No. 9) and "One Good Reason" (which peaked at No. 28). In addition to "Don't Shed a Tear", three additional singles charted from the album, including a cover of the Jackie DeShannon classic, " When You Walk in the Room ". The album's title track, another one of these singles, also cracked the Top 30 on the US chart . Jim Green of Trouser Press
170-462: The album's liner notes. Musicians Production and artwork AllMusic AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG ) is an American online music database . It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands . Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic
187-521: The interim between solo albums, Carrack had been a member of Nick Lowe and his Cowboy Outfit , which released two studio albums in 1984 and 1985, and joined Mike + The Mechanics for their 1985 self-titled debut . Mike + The Mechanics drummer Peter Van Hooke and songwriter and record producer Christopher Neil also appear on the album, serving in the same roles they did for the Mechanics. The album includes two of Carrack's highest charting solo hits in
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#1732782599595204-532: The sale, and as Rovi from 2009 until 2016). In 2012, AllMusic removed all of Bryan Adams ' info from the site per a request from the artist. In 2015, AllMusic was purchased by BlinkX, later known as RhythmOne . The AllMusic database is powered by a combination of MySQL and MongoDB . The All Media Network produced the All Music Guide: The Definitive Guide (at first released as The Experts' Guide ), which includes
221-427: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title One Good Reason . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=One_Good_Reason&oldid=1058635734 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
238-407: The staff expanded from 12 to 100 people. By February of that year, 350,000 albums and two million tracks had been cataloged. All Music had published biographies of 30,000 artists, 120,000 record reviews and 300 essays written by "a hybrid of historians, critics and passionate collectors". In late 2007, AllMusic was purchased for $ 72 million by TiVo Corporation (known as Macrovision at the time of
255-606: Was a 1,200-page reference book, packaged with a CD-ROM, titled All Music Guide: The Best CDs, Albums & Tapes: The Expert's Guide to the Best Releases from Thousands of Artists in All Types of Music . Its first online version, in 1994, was a text-based Gopher site. It moved to the World Wide Web as web browsers became more user-friendly. Erlewine hired a database engineer, Vladimir Bogdanov , to design
272-519: Was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard . After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan , he founded All Music Guide with a goal to create an open-access database that included every recording "since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost". The first All Music Guide , published in 1992,
289-464: Was not entirely enthusiastic about the album, writing: "Half of One Good Reason is decent-to-good, and the rest is mediocre-to-poor....it's got more radio-music slickness than Carrack's had in years but at the cost of some identity." Green notes that "It did yield a genuine not-bad pop hit ("Don't Shed a Tear")." AllMusic 's Mike DeGagne retrospectively calls " Don't Shed a Tear " "the album's highlight, bolstered by its subtle, laid-back groove with
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