17-425: No More Heroes may refer to: Music [ edit ] No More Heroes (album) , a 1977 album by The Stranglers "No More Heroes" (The Stranglers song) , the title track "No More Heroes", a song by Westlife from the album Where We Are Video games [ edit ] No More Heroes (series) , the video game series No More Heroes (video game) ,
34-484: A 2007 video game for the Wii No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise , a 2010 version of the game, for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 No More Heroes Original Sound Tracks , a soundtrack album from the 2007 game Its 2010 sequel, No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle The 2019 game, Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes The 2021 sequel, No More Heroes III Topics referred to by
51-471: A database engineer, Vladimir Bogdanov , to design 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,
68-471: A feature that became central to the site's utility. In 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
85-558: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages No More Heroes (album) No More Heroes is the second studio album by English new wave band the Stranglers . It was released on 23 September 1977, through record label United Artists in most of the world and A&M in the United States, five months after their debut album, Rattus Norvegicus . No More Heroes
102-606: The Nubiles" to the sarcastic attack on racism ("I Feel Like a Wog") to the suicide of a friend ("Dagenham Dave"). Despite the increased virulence, the music is even better than on the debut, introducing pop stylings that would later become a more common aspect of the Stranglers' character," finishing the review with " No More Heroes is easily [the Stranglers'] best album." In 2000 it was voted number 427 in Colin Larkin 's All Time Top 1000 Albums . All tracks are written by
119-539: The Stranglers ( Hugh Cornwell , Jean-Jacques Burnel , Dave Greenfield , Jet Black ) Position (sales thresholds) Position The popular hack and slash video game series No More Heroes by Grasshopper Manufacture got its name from the album. 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,
136-401: The Stranglers were on top of their game, and the ferocity and anger that suffuses this record would never be repeated." Trouser Press wrote that No More Heroes "continues in the same vein [as Rattus Norvegicus ], but drops whatever hint of restraint may have been in force the first time around. Rude words and adult themes abound, with no punches pulled, from the blatant sexism of "Bring on
153-491: The album: the title track , and a double A-side of " Something Better Change " and the non-album track "Straighten Out". The Oakland Tribune likened the band to "Capt. Beefheart backed by the Ramones." The Guardian noted that "a good organ sound and distinctive vocal tricks [keep] off the encroaching monotony." AllMusic called No More Heroes "faster, nastier and better [than Rattus Norvegicus ]. "At this point
170-476: The database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic 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
187-508: The dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought 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
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#1732776723829204-640: The industry its first big boost". The first All Music Guide , published in 1992, 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
221-566: The music is sold. It then connects that data together, in 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
238-532: 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
255-425: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title No More Heroes . 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=No_More_Heroes&oldid=1040936926 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
272-407: 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
289-656: Was produced by Martin Rushent . The album consists of new material with four songs left over from the Rattus Norvegicus sessions ("Something Better Change", "Bitching", "Peasant in the Big Shitty" and "School Mam"). The album cover features a photo of a wreath placed on a coffin with the tails of several rats (the Stranglers' trademark). The brass plaque on the album cover was engraved by Steven Stapleton of Nurse with Wound . Two singles were released from
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