 Creators of the instantly-recognizable hit "She Looks A Lot Like You." Now their entire debut CD is available for you to explore! |
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Play She Looks a Lot Like You Play 19 Play Samples of the entire album Songs on this album are: 1. She Looks a Lot Like You 2. Here They Come 3. 19 4. Without You 5. Nobody's Fool 6. When She Put You Down 7. Someone (Not Me) 8. Whe Will I SeeYou Again 9. Summer 10. Feeling This Way  |
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| The Wichita, Kansas based band Clocks, arrived on the pop rock scene in 1982, and almost immediately got lost in the shuffle of the era - But not before giving us one of the most identifiable songs from that time.
Produced by Mike Flicker (Heart), this one-off album by the band has some nice moments, which fuses the styles of numerous other acts from that same imprint in time. A sound similar to The Cars, Tommy Tutone, The Romantics would be a fair description for Clocks. Their song 'She Looks A Lot Like You' was released as a 7" single, and moved up the US charts nicely at the time. Very little has been written about Clocks over the years, apart from a short review in Issue #2 of AOR Classics magazine. But we've found a recap of their career written by their bassist Jerry Sumner that captures the excitement and promise that Clocks had before them. Jerry writes: “She Looks a Lot Like You was written by our drummer Steve Swain in a hotel room in Selkirk, Manitoba in Canada. We spent a lot of time up there when we first started playing original music. The Canadians were very receptive to new music. "Anyway, Steve saw some model on the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine and thought she looked like his ex-wife, as well as the girl he was seeing at the time. The first time I heard the song, I thought we might have a chance to do something as a band. That is, if we could just keep coming up with songs like that. The song did get us a record deal with CBS-Boulevard Records. Steve did manage to come up with quite a few additional songs for the album. We actually had a good chance of getting somewhere in the music business. "Our album was released in June of 1982. It ended up charting, as did the single. We toured with Rick Springfield and Cheap Trick, so things were definitely looking up for us… until when things abruptly changed at the label and our second album wasn’t picked up. It seems that was the beginning of some big changes in the music industry. MTV came on the scene and suddenly there was a whole new way of doing things." The band did flourish a bit with the launch of MTV as their video for "She Looks a Lot Like You" receiving some decent airplay. It showcased the band's signature keyboards and had a hint of a New Wave vibe that made it popular with the viewers. Unfortunately, a second album was not in the cards for Clocks in the 1980's, but some of the band did reunite in 2003 for a recording session that produced some new tunes. Songs from those sessions were combined with some early demos and released in 2004 as The Black Box on Zip Records. |