Nuggets: Put the Clock Back on the Wall by The E-Types

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1. I like how this one’s got some piano in it, which hardly any of these songs ever did. And also I always liked songs that imitate the sound of a clock ticking with the drums. Like Time Has Come Today, except that one uses a cowbell and not really drums.

   • Are we into the series of songs that you really like now? I hear organ, but not piano.

     • There’s a whole piano solo right about in the middle of the song.

       • Sorry! I gave it a quick relisten and just heard organ, but I obviously didn’t listen though to the solo…

         • Yeah it’s not as noticeable in the shortened version since most of it comes near the end of the song. That’s why when I listened to the version that you have posted here it seemed different than the way I remembered it.

2. It does sound very 60s and vaguely familiar as well.

   • I don’t think I’ve heard it before Nuggets, but it would certainly fit oldies radio.

3. Pretty decent tune! I love the organ sound, and these guys could definitely sing harmony!

   • Yeah, I think they were definitely talented – they probably suffered from being a lot behind the trend. Could have done better 6 months earlier.

4. Sounds like something The Monkees might have pulled off. I found myself fascinated with the tambourine.

   • You’re right, it does sound a bit like The Monkees too. There is lots of good playing – I like the bass as well.

5. It’s a mix of difference influences that works well….it would have worked better commercially in 65 or 66. Its a shame some of these bands weren’t heard more. The band’s name and the title of the song is really cool.

   Off Topic… I’m posting about it tomorrow but I’m taking a month break from blogging after tomorrow… becasue of work, home projects, and just to recharge…I’ll be back Sept 2.

   • Enjoy your break if you’re still reading this! See you in a month.

     • Thanks Graham!

6. Actually now that I listen to it I think it’s a woodblock that makes the tick tocks in Time Has Come Today and not a cowbell, but I’m not really sure. It could be both actually. The cowbell makes the tick, and the woodblock makes the tock. I remember what a woodblock is because in like sixth or seventh grade I took orchestra in school and I remember that this one kid had to play the woodblock, and it was like a hollowed-out piece of dark shiny wood with a little mallet that you hit it with. And the kid only got to play a couple notes on it and the rest of the time he just had to stand there looking stupid..

7. A pretty good tune that sadly got lost among the avalanche of similar-sounding songs of the day. Their fascinating band name was ahead of its time, and like Max, I love the song title.

   • Where does the name E-Types come from?

     • I don’t know, but it sounds like a rather
       technological word that might have come into use much later than the 60s.

       • It makes me think of a blood type, although obviously E isn’t one.

8. In the long version of the song It does the piano part thing about three times toward the end of the song. They only do it once in the short version. And the long version does more of the ticking clock thing near the end.