Nonplusultra-Love Songs

Cd1

[01] Terence Trent D'arby - Sign Your Name [04:36]
[02] Curtis Stigers - I Wonder Why [04:28]
[03] F.R. David - Words (Remix Radio) [03:22]
[04] Eric Carmen - All by Mself [04:55]
[05] Ricky Martin - She's All I Ever Head [04:55]
[06] Crash Test Dummies - Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm [03:45]
[07] Johnny Logan - Hold Me Now [03:02]
[08] Mr. Mister - Broken Wings [05:34]
[09] Toni Braxton - Un-Break My Heart [04:30]
[10] Sinead O'connor - Nothing Compares 2 U [05:11]
[11] Hot Chocolate - It Started with A Kiss [04:02]
[12] Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing [04:00]

Cd2

[01] Gazebo - I Like Chopin [04:09]
[02] B3 - How Deep is Our Love [03:45]
[03] Milli Vanilli - I'm Gonna Miss You [04:00]
[04] Beat Base - Say I'm Your No. 1 (Flava Radio Edit) [03:41]
[05] La Bouche - Be My Lover [04:03]
[06] Modern Talking - You're My Heart, You're My Soul [05:31]
[07] Haddaway - I Miss You [03:40]
[08] Jill Morris - Runaway Love [03:47]
[09] Michelle Gayle - I'll Find You [04:25]
[10] Real Mccoy - Automatic Lover (Call for Love) [03:48]
[11] Deborah Cox - Where Do We Go Form Here [04:19]
[12] Wild Orchid - At Night I Pray [04:16]

Cd3

[01] Robyn - You've Got that Somethin' [03:48]
[02] The Alan Parsons Project - Don't Answer Me [04:14]
[03] Bangles - Eternal Flame [03:57]
[04] Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now [04:45]
[05] Fairground Attraction - Perfect [03:38]
[06] Daryl Hall & John Otes - Everytime You Go Away [05:22]
[07] Paul Young - Don't Dream It's Over [04:19]
[08] David A. Stewart - Lily Was Here Candy Dulfer [04:18]
[09] Blue System - Love Suite [03:16]
[10] Mr. Mister - Run to Her [03:40]
[11] Daryl Hall & John Oates - So Close [04:42]
[12] Rick Astley - Together Forever [03:26]

Cd4

[01] Smokie - Lay Back in the Arms of Someone [04:07]
[02] Leo Sayer - More that I Can Say [03:39]
[03] Electric Light Orchestra - Telephone Line [04:44]
[04] The Real Thing - You to Me Are Everything [03:22]
[05] Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine [02:06]
[06] John Paul Young - Lost in Your Love [03:10]
[07] Percy Sledge - When A Man Loves A Woman (Re-Recording) [ARTiST.....: VA
TiTLE......: Nonplusultra-Love Songs
COMPANY....: Sony & BMG
RELEASEDATE: 08 Mai 2007
STREETDATE.: 13 April 2007
SOURCE.....: CDDA
TRACKS.....: 60
GRABBER....: EAC
TYPE.......: Sampler
GENRE......: Pop
ENCODER....: LAME 3.97 V2: preset standard
QUALiTY....: VBRkbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo
Bitrate....: avg. 196kbpskbps native Germany, the reputation of BLIND GUARDIAN unfortunately mean little in the English speaking countries. The seeds of the band were sown with EUROPEAN, a formative outfit led by guitarist André Olbrich. In turn, this act evolved into ZERO FAULT and then, with the introduction of erstwhile EXECUTOR rhythm guitarist Hansi Kürsch, was re-branded as LUCIFER'S HERITAGE. The two musicians had met at Krefeld's commercial college in 1984 and assembled the new band unit with Thomen Stauch behind the drum kit and Marcus Dörk of REDEEMER on second guitar. In 1984 the band expanded to a quintet, performing one concert with lead singer Thomas Kelleners before reverting swiftly back to a four piece. In later years Kelleners would front HEAVENWARD. In this guise the quartet issued the demo 'Symphonies Of Doom' in December 1985 but tensions relating to the financing of these sessions, it was eventually part funded by Olbrich's grandmother, led to Stauch's departure, to REDEEMER, and Hans-Peter Frey was installed as new drummer.

In 1986 Christof Theissen superseded Dörk. Critically, at this juncture LUCIFER'S HERITAGE began to explore J.R.R. Tolkien middle earth themes on their next batch of new songs, released as the 'Battalions Of Fear' demo. The band attempted to locate a lead singer for a period, Kürsch being unconvinced of his own talents, but this search was fruitless and Hansi Kürsch resolved to persevere with the vocal duties. However, Theissen soon lost his place and Marcus Dörk rejoined, as did Thomen Stauch.

The self-managed group evolved into BLIND GUARDIAN after they had signed to No Remorse Records, the label having expressed concerns over the occult flavour of the band name. BLIND GUARDIAN was picked over other contendors BATTERY, in relation to METALLICA, and RAGING WATERS. They duly debuted with the release of the 'Battalions Of Fear' album in 1988. The opening track from that record, 'Majesty', remains a live favourite to this day.

Produced by Kalle Trapp at Karo Studios in Münster, 'Battalions Of Fear' served the group well, selling 10,000 copies and found the group supporting it on tour with GRINDER. The sophomore album, 'Follow The Blind' (also produced by Trapp) saw the group experimenting with orchestral passages and a strange choice of a cover song in the form of the BEACH BOYS' 'Barbara Ann' (!), although the record also included a cover of DEMON's 'Don't Break The Circle'. Kai Hansen, latterly of GAMMA RAY fame guests on vocals and guitar parts on the tracks 'Hall Of The King' and 'Valhalla'.

'Follow The Blind' not only improved the group's standing in their native Germany but also led to heavy interest in Japan and enabled them to negotiate a Japanese deal. Oddly, despite the success of the records BLIND GUARDIAN's live appearances were rather sporadic. Instead the band remained content at improving their musical prowess in the studio, evolving from a Speed Metal outfit to one that combined many different Metallic styles and arrangements as well as lyrics often inspired by the work of Stephen King or J.R.R. Tolkien.

May 1990's 'Tales From The Twilight World' was the first album to highlight the improved standards and promptly sold over 30,000 copie