Very little info about The Twins other than the fact that it's a German duo formed in the early 1980s and composed of Ronny Schreinzer and Sven Dohrow.
Group that will remain mainly in the musical history of the 80s for two big Singles that are "Not the loving kind" released in 1983 but also, and above all, "Ballet dancer" which will be released in 1984.
As such alone, we had to devote this article to them.
To discover or rediscover...
Discography (among others ...) :
80s Decade :
Runaway 1981
The desert place 1981
Birds and dogs 1982
Face to face, heart to heart 1982
Not the loving kind 1983
Ballet dancer 1984
Love system 1984
The game of chance 1984
Love in the dark 1985
Deep within my heart 1985
I need you 1986
Time will tell 1987
Hold on to your dreams 1987
One day 1988
90s Decade :
Tonight 1993
Love is blind 1993
2010s Decade :
Down in Key Largo 2018
Going to the moon 2018
Marina Jones 2018
When I lost you 2018
Ghosts of yesterday 2018
Tracks :
1981 ... trendy beginnings that show obvious potential. There is still a little work to do, it's clear, but the essential is already there
1981 ... a first year of breaking in to show what we are capable of and to find the style and sound that go well ...
1982 ... no classified title yet, but it's starting to smell good. The rise in power is linear and will soon produce particularly interesting things ...
1982 ... we suspected that at some point, it would pay off. And it pays with this title which brings them their first major success. Finally !
1983 ... a single-title year which still allows the group to continue his ascent quietly but surely. Good job once again !
1984 ... the consecration. The group obtains here the biggest success of its career and returns definitively in the musical legend of the Eighties. A well-deserved consecration !
1984 ... the group will be unable to repeat the feat of the previous title but the dynamic of success continues to carry them and that is the essential. For how long, that's another question ...
1984 ... surely one of their most successful titles. And very surprisingly, in this year 1984 when everything is successful for them, this title will not even be classified. Go figure ...
1985 ... the last major success. After 2 years spent at the top, the group begins a gradual but irreversible deceleration. And yet, what they continue to offer is far from ridiculous !
1985 ... no more titles will be classified from now on. The group will therefore be content to make up the figures while they still have some under the pedal, that's clear. Hard law of the trade ...
1986 ... new single-title year. The last of the same type, that is to say 1983, had been profitable to them at the very least on the Charts side. This one will be much less ...
1987 ... anyway, they believe it and they hang on, no matter what. Unfortunately the miracle will not take place ...
1987 ... their only flaw was to evolve little and to have kept the same sound from beginning to end. Except that the end of the decade required some adaptations that they did not want or knew how to make. Pity...
1988 ... they will have launched Intimist only at the end, a mistake when you see what they are able to offer. But it is already too late to reverse the trend, even at this level ...
1993 ... after 5 years of absence, here they are back in 1993. A comeback that will not change the situation even if the group will experience a small success of esteem on this one
1993 ... come on, a little last for the road. The end of a very nice adventure for one of the most talented German groups of its generation...
2018...when we thought we would never see them again, here they are back almost 25 years later. An unexpected return to say the least which inevitably delights the core fans...
2018...not only are they coming back but they are also showing with this new opus that they have lost none of their original talent !
2018...so it's a real pleasure to see them return in such form. So rebirth or simple furtive passage ? The future will tell us...
2018... whatever happens, we're making the most of everything they bring us here because it's not certain that we'll see them again afterwards...
2018...it would still have been a damn shame if they didn't come back, it's clear. There is still a huge dose of inspiration in a good number of groups from the 80s, the proof !
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