Track Listing

1. Wanna Be Loved
2. One of a Kind
3. Still Hate to Loose
4. Sister Sister
5. Ball of Fire
6. Call of the Wild
7. No-Man's Land
8. Out on the Line
9. Cold Shoulder
10. Nobody's Fool
11. Wanna Be Loved [New Version 2005][*]
12. Wanna Be Loved [Acoustic Version][*]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #467118 in Music
• Released on: 2005-11-29
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import

Album Description
The Hard Rock formation Karo were from Berlin and they released their first and unfortunately, last album in 1988. Commercial hard rock was their thing and they had this special flair, which turned good songs into pretty great catchy tunes. The keyboard had an important part alike at many hard'n heavy bands, although it wasn't too bombastic and too much used alike at many Wannabe Metal bands. The CD sounds like a polished version of the fourth Sinner album Dangerous Charm, respectively, it's on the same way like the Kingdom/Domain debut Lost In The City. Karo's vocalist was to later record 2 albums under the name of Dan Lucas and found the man going in a more Melodic Rock direction. This rare collector's item is being re-released on MTM Classix. 2005.

Customer Reviews

First class melodic rock from Germany
1988's Heavy Birthday was the debut release from German melodic rock band Karo. Despite the title, I wouldn't exactly call this a heavy album. It's also a bit atypical of the German melodic rock scene in that it doesn't sound much like what Bonfire, Zeno or Axxis was releasing at the time.

Karo's sound is closer to the North American melodic rock of bands like King Kobra, Tyketto, Honeymoon Suite, and early Bon Jovi. It's very catchy (the guitar hooks are incredible), very melodic, positively drenched with keyboards (in a good way), and the vocals are very striking. Heavy Birthday is, in many ways, the perfect example of what made the mid 80's AOR/melodic rock sound so much fun.

Unfortunately, Heavy Birthday was the band's only album. They had the right kind of sound to break through to a wider audience, but for some reason that never happened. Fans of 80's era melodic rock will not want to miss out on this great album, especially now that it has been reissued.

NOTE: MTM Classics reissued Heavy Birthday in 2005 with digitally remastered sound and a pair of bonus tracks. The bonus tracks - alternate versions of Wanna Be Loved - don't add much, but the remastering is a definite plus.