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A question that often comes up on this forum is, "What was the song that played when they were coming back from commercial...?" As all hard-core "Loveline" fans know, these transition pieces are called "bumpers".

I have just added a "Bumpers" section to the "Sound" area of this site. (See link below.) This collection is by no means complete; I'll be adding more clips as time goes on.

I invite everyone to play "Name that Bumper!" If you know the name of the song and the artist for a given bumper, simply post a follow-up below.

• Bumpers

—Silent Virgin

I listen to too much damn music...

1 Take it off by The Donnas
2 Diamonds and Guns by Transplants
3 Get Free by The Vines
Ok, didn't know 4-11
12 Boy of Summer by The Ataris
13 In da Club by 50 Cent on the Album Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Didn't know 14
15 Definatly by Audioslave, but I'm not sure which song.
16 Talk to Me Dance with Me by Hot Hot Heat.

—JooJooBee

May be little help, but #5 is a Busta Rhymes song and they have talked about #7 and Anderson said it was by "Fischer Spooner"--no idea about the spelling. Hope that helps somone.

—Marc

15. audioslave-show_me_how_to_live

Good Times..........................

—__--__

Filling in some of the missing bumper names.

5. "Put your hands where my eyes could see" by Busta Rhymes
7. Dunno.
8. This one is bugging me, thought it was something by System of a Down, but I'm not sure.
9. "From tha Chuuuch to da Palace" by Snoop Dogg
10. "Hardest Button to Button" by the White Stripes
11. "Frantic" by Metallica
14. Stumped me.

—khis

7. Fisherspooner- Emerge
8. System of a Down "I-E-A-I-A-I-O"

—AM

Total List
1 The Donnas – Take it Off
2 The Transplants – Diamonds and Guns
3 The Vines – Get Free
4 Missy Elliot – Gossip Folks
5 Busta Rhymes – Put Your Hands…
6 Coldplay – Clocks
7 Fisherspooner- Emerge
8. System of a Down - I-E-A-I-A-I-O
9 Snoop Dogg - From tha Church to da Palace
10 White Stripes - Hardest Button to Button
11 Metallica - Frantic
12 The Ataris – Boys of Summer
13 50 Cent – In Da Club
14 Don't know name of song but its by the group who sings "Poem" I think its Frantic
15 Audioslave – Show me How to Live
16 Hot Hot Heat – Talk To Me, Dance with Me

—Sean

In case anyone's wondering, the only one that hasn't been named so far is #14

—Jake

I think #14 is by Taproot

—Sean

Thanks everyone! (That was fast!) Yep, #14 is the only one left. I did my best to find the album info.

—Silent Virgin

#14
311 - Creatures (For A While)

—Mike

Addendum:
From the album 'Evolver'
Guests 9/18/02, 7/8/03

—Mike

Good times!

—Silent Virgin

Here's one: "Songs For The Deaf" by Queens of The Stone Age

debi

—debi

The title for bumper #17 is "Faint" by Linkin Park

—Ian

#19 is called "Stacy's Mom" and it's off the album "Welcome Interstate Managers" by the band "Fountains of Wayne"

—Matt

#20 is called "Wanksta" and it's from the album "Get Rich or Die Tryin" by the rapper "50 Cent"

—Matt

If anyone is still following this thread, #22 is "Still D.R.E." by Dr. Dre & Eminem (from Chronic 2001)

—NJC

Actually, I'm retarded, Eminem isn't in that one. It's Dre and Snoop.
D'OH!

—NJC

I've sometimes heard Swing Swing by the All American Rejects as a bumper...just wondering if anyone else noticed that...

—Folgers

One song that I have not seen posted here, but that I have heard as bumper music on Loveline, is "Madskillz - Mic Chekka" by BT. They used to play a clip out from that song when going to commercial. Most clips I see posted here are bumpers used when coming back from commercial.

—SK

It's time to play "Name that Bumper" again! If you know the name of the song and the artist for a given bumper, simply post a follow-up below.

Note that there is one straggler under "2003": Bumper #23. Engineer Anderson only played this bumper a handful of times (AFAIK) before replacing all the bumpers a few weeks ago.

• Bumpers

—Silent Virgin

Bumper 29 is "99 Problems" off of Jay-Z's "The Black Album"
30 is "Feeling This" from Blink-182's self-titled album

Wow, not listening to the radio in a long time has made me really out of touch with these.

—B

#23 is "Hey Ya" by OutKast from the album "Speakerboxx / The Love Below".
#28 is "Hit That" by The Offspring from the album "Splinter".

—Chris G

#31 is 'Lying from You' by Linkin Park.

—JooJooBee

26 is blink 182 - violence

—everybody has warts

The title for #24 is "Cold Hard Bitch" by Jet

#33 is "The Outsider" by A Perfect Circle

—NJC

#25 sounds like Reptilia by the Strokes

—Meatwad

27 is Ocean Avenue by Yellowcard

—Ty

#32:

Incubus
"Megalomaniac"
A Crow Left of the Murder

—AlteredMind

Albums

Cold Hard Bitch - Get Born
Reptilia - Room On Fire
Violence - Blink-182
Ocean Avenue - Ocean Avenue
Lying From You - Meteora
The Outsider - Thirteenth Step
I Disappear - Mission Impossible 2 Soundtrack
Still D.R.E. - 2001

—shoeofdeath

Are there any plans to go back any farther than 2003, just for kicks and posterity? I'm sure plenty of people have recorded copies they can put up.

—puck71

No -- at least, *I* don't have any plans. :-) BTW, thanks, everyone, for helping with the new 2004 list!

—Silent Virgin

What about this one?

Yeah, I'm up for the old ones. I've always wanted to know what song is at the beginning of this clip:

*Lightning* round

—NJC

99 problems is my fave bumper

—ATCQ

No one knows what this one is???
Is it even a song?

• http://web.njctech.com/bumper.mp3

—NJC

I'm pretty sure that's "99 Problems" by Jay-Z. I could be wrong, though.

—Agent 007

yep thats 99 problems

—ATCQ

After the first commercial break tonight they came back with "Yeah" by Usher as a bumper.

Just thought I'd throw that out there for the sound clips if someone wants to grab it out of a rip.

—dr ipod

Does anyone have any guesses on all these new bumpers??? Some of them are really good. I know Modest Mouse is one. Anyone???

—eric

The only ones I know are Modest Mouse and Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

—steve

Modest Mouse = the love of my live

—Wugie

Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out, is another...I'm sure i know more, but that's the only one which sticks out in my mind.

—piesore

Seriously Wugie! I found Modest Mouse back in 2000 when 'The Moon and Antartica' had just come out. I went back and bought everything they ever released. 'Lonesome Crowded West' is still my favourite. It's crazy to see them getting all this mainstream air play.

—steve

One of the new bumpers I know is "what's your number" by Cypress Hill.

—eric

I don't see much Modest Mouse mainstream airplay down here in Gainesville, Florida

—Wugie

Oh, you live in Gainesville Wugie? I live in Jax. When I was talking about MM getting mainstream airplay, I was referring to the airplay they get on 91X (San Diego) -- the station I record Loveline from.

—steve

Ah, I figured you were probably talking about a California radio station

—Wugie

99 Problems by Jay Z is another.

—piesore

Hey, what is the name of the Modest Mouse song? I have been searching for the song featured on Lovline? Anyone know? Thanks

—Marc

The song is "Float On" and is the single from their album that just came out called "Good News for People Who Love Bad News". more info here:

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDCASS80311161407061780&sql=Aic7uak1kam3k

and you can watch the video of it, VERY cool shit! here:

http://www.modestmousebootlegs.com/

it is this crazy paper / toy / magnetic thing with crazy camera angles ... i can't explain it, just watch it!

Great song... glad anderson added it to the bumpers.

—Tyler

Maps by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, is one, and Talk Shows on Mute by Incubus is another.

—piesore

Alright, anyone know this one?

—NJC

Yes, that's talk shows on mute by Incubus.

—piesore

There was a whole new set of bumpers last night (June 24). I only recognized one: "Breaking the Habit" by Linkin Park off the Meteora album.

—puck71

Does anyone know the song that played before the penultimate segment on the Patton Oswalt/Brian Posehn show? On the 1:32:45 mp3 version it is playing at exactly 125 minutes. I couldnt recognize it at all. Thanks for the help in advance!

—Marc

I'm not sure about that one Marc, but I also notice they've been using "Slither" by Velvet Revolver recently, but not for the closing segment. They started that new closing bumper on the 24th also, but I don't know what song it is.

—puck71

That new closing bumper is "Right Right Now Now" by the Beastie Boys. It's off the new To The 5 Boroughs album, I just got it, and yes, it kicks ass.

—skibum989

The song I was looking for was the one right before the closing bumper, does anyone know that one?

—Marc

Yet another Bumper to try to name ;).

This was on after the last commercial set on the March 20th 2003 show with Greg Proops.

I've heard it on the radio before but could never find the name...

Thanks for any help.

• Clip of The Bumper

—zisnan

That's on all the closing segmants almost from 2003, Clocks by Coldplay...

—salemthepocketfox

Speaking of Modest Mouse (from a post about 2 months back), now they've been playing "The Ocean Breathes Salty" off their new album alot too! I got into Modest Mouse about 5 years ago when I picked up their album "The Lonesome Crowded West." Great stuff! "Float On" has been getting a good bit of airplay on 93X in Memphis, and they were playing it all the time on one of the Orlando radio stations (that also played Loveline) when I was down there in late May. I figure this must mean that "Ocean" must be the next single, but they haven't started playing it here yet.

—loubat

Last night (and many nights lately) they've been playing "Y Control" by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. It's off the same album as "Maps", Fever to Tell. That's the only one that I recognized that hasn't alreaady been listed, I think.

—loubat

anyone know the current 'closing' bumper? kinda rap-ish with some 'whoo ooohhh' hoots. ... ludacris?

also Silent Virgin, the Bumpers clip section needs updating foo! put all the new ones up here and let's get them all ID'd and stuff... :)

Tyler

P.S. if youre busy and have no time, disregard the above 'get to work damn-it!' style request. the place is solid as ever. keep it up!

—Tyler

You just had to look up a couple posts :-)

"That new closing bumper is "Right Right Now Now" by the Beastie Boys. It's off the new To The 5 Boroughs album, I just got it, and yes, it kicks ass.

—skibum989"

—Marc

A new one being played has guitar cords sprung 1 sec apart followed by drums building up bout 8 counts then a tinney sounding "Ting, ting, ting, tung....Tingting, ting, ting, tung"
Who and what is that???

—Maim Man

I think bumblebeez 81 - pony ride.

—piesore

So let's help out the silent virgin and do all the legwork on updating the 'bumper' section so that it would be easy to copy / paste our work over there and update it since she has no time recently and is lagging (rightfully so! work is more important the hobby of loveline).

so, check out the format of the 'bumper' section of the site:

http://www.dolland.net/loveline/sound/bumpers/index.html

what would be killer is for people to go through shows randomly. prob like 1 per month? for all of 2004. just cruise it through and cut / make mp3 snippets of each bumper. you can see a few from 2004 have been made already, but we need to make clips of the recent ones. So maybe upload the clip to the DC+, or just e-mail silent virgin yourself and upload / e-mail it to her.

also when you post your clip post the artist / song name if you know it, or just post the clip and the rest of us will try and match it up.. also any notes regarding the song / relation to loveline should be included.

also, if anyone is too lazy, i'd be happy to go through and cut out the bumper clips myself, just post like 1-2 shows from each month of 2004 to a public downloadable FTP or http site (i still haven't figured out the DC hub) and i'll download / cut / research, etc ...

let's update the 2004 bumpers section! it always is good to keep that up to doate with anderson always bringing in new tunes and all.

thansk for the help!

Tyler

—Tyler

Yeah! piesore! You the Man! ..or Woman! ?? or soreperson:-)
Thanks, that's it! Bumblebeez 81 - Pony Ride Thats pretty good considering the lack of description and plus on second listen, it's more of: "Tong, Tink Tink Tink, Tong, Tink aTinkaLink" :-P

Also Thank You Tyler for added info. I now know where to forward some of these bumpers!

—Maim Man

so since i never heard from anyone, i decided to just get off my own ass and do it myself. If you know the name of any of these bumpers, post here with as much info you know. Artist, Album, Song Title, and if they have been a guest would be great. official site too if you can!

there are more on the way, this is just this mornings work. sorry for the crappy quality, it is just the episodes i randomly grab from. some are web and some are FM.

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bumper034

?

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bumper035

modest mouse - float on = from album "Good news for people who love bad news" www.modestmouse.com
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bumper036

bumblebeez 81 - pony ride?
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bumper037

?
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bumper038

?
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so get to it! don't be a tard and be lazy, i did all the work, all you have to do is right click and save the clip and listen! takes 30 seconds of your life and help out the loveline community!

Tyler

—Tyler

also, if anyone has been hankering for the 'new' loveline intro / outro they have been doig for a few months now:

New Loveline Intro

and

New Loveline Outro

I think they premeird on May 9, 2004. it is the 'max-headroom' style... adam hates it but anderson says he really likes the guy who made them, so he's cool with them.

i hope they go back to the old intro eventually, or make one that doesn't suck so hard.

—Tyler

bumper 37: "99 Problems" by Jay-z

bumper 38: "Slither" by Velvet Revolver

—Folgers

cool! here's some more:

Bumper039

"Yeah" by Usher ... Album?
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bumper040

?

—Tyler

another re-peat on my part:

34 is 'violence' by Blink 182 ... (already on the bumpers page)

—Tyler

and yet another re-peat ... so 40 is incubus - megalomaniac ...

so really the only ones people need to look into are if 36 is bumblebeez 81 or not ... the rest are set for now .. more as they come.

—Tyler

Tyler, 36 IS Bumblebeez81. Anderson verified it a while back when Adam asked about it on the show. Also, you can pull it up on VH1.com and listen to the clip to see for yourself.

—roadrage

Last night's show had a slew of new bumpers that I have no idea about, anyone recognize some of them?

—Kevin U.

• The five new bumpers that Colin posted clips of are named in this thread

—Folgers

I've been trying to find out the name of one of the bumpers on the show for months now. Y'all are my only hope. It usually shows up after the halfway break. I hadn't heard it in a couple weeks, but then it was on tonight (2/1), about 30 minutes in. Please, please, for the love of god, help me out here. I poked around but didn't hear it anywhere on the site.

—baby girl

can this get updated please

—kris

please im in desperate need of this being updated

—attack crows

What's the name of the song that has the girl going "tick tock tick tock tick tock"?

—evilmax17

"What You Waiting For?" by Gwen Stefani.

—mikeyfish

This thing needs to be updated badly..not sure how to post audio of the bumper, but the bumper thats played alot lately with the cool guitar beat is by
The Dead 60s-Riot Radio

—GASHWOUND

heres a shitty bumper

—000

*rimshot*

—mikeyfish

That's awesome mikey, wish you could get that to play immediately, just by clicking on it, that would be cool.

—Masteel

The Bumper-Dumper is great,especially when I'm stuck in traffic.

— cab-merlot

I was wondering if you guys know the songs/artists in these bumpers: bumper #1 and bumper #2. By the way, I love the SpongeBob Devil in this clip: funny clip. Thanks for your help!

—ankiedada

Green Day - Holiday
Gwen Stefani - Rich Girl

You get uber brownie points for providing actual clips.

—chix0r

Name that bumper!

• BuMpEr!

—sgtslahter

"Feel Good Inc." by Gorillaz. That's also the song on one of the iPod commercials.

—ankiedada

• Click here to download song.

—ankiedada

Has anyone notice that Anderson "happens" to pick bumbers from bands Adam claims to hate? He played Rich Girl and Feel Good Inc. in a row tonight and i wondered if that was a coincidence. Since Adam notoriously hates Damon from the Gorillaz and put a curse on Gwen Stefani, good stuff. one of anderson's favorites to use is the Dead 60's - Riot Radio. I can't remember any more that haven't been mentioned.

—Stryker311

oh and one more band, Carolla has commented that he doesn't like Rivers Cuomo from Weezer, and Anderson always plays the bumper from Perfect Situation by Weezer.

• Perfect Situation

—Stryker311

okay last comment, and sometimes he plays Beverly Hills by Weezer as well. Anderson is just keeping his and Adam's love/hate relationship alive.

• Beverly Hills

—Stryker311

>>one of anderson's favorites to use is the Dead 60's - Riot Radio. I can't remember any more that haven't been mentioned.

That one's been mentioned two or three times, so, technically, you have remembered zero that haven't. I'm not sure if he plays bands Adam dislikes on purpose or not, but he also plays bands Adam likes, such as System of a Down.

—chix0r

I don't even know if Anderson picks the bumpers.

—Hashmeer Shashmeer

He does. Trust me

—Stryker311

*sigh*

I don't have a clip of this one, and this is and old bumper, but...

Its one that has "Tink tonk tink ta ta tink tatata tink...* around the end of the bumper, after they usually start speaking.

Kinda like that. Its an old one, and it's not modest mouse. Guitar before it, I guess. Sorry, can't describe music, and don't know how to get a clip...

It would be awesome if someone knew what I was talking about.

—CrusherEAGLE

Sorry Stryker, but I doubt Anderson picks the bumpers. They're basically just recent releases from popular groups that get rotated out every three or four months. If he was picking, I guarantee there'd be a more eclectic mix of songs.

Though I’m sure he does get some delight in finding out that hated bands like Gorillaz and Stefani are in the accepted mix.

So, unless you have something more compelling than "trust me" to back it up, I just don't see it.

—Beat It!

lmao. Man i dont know that just cracked me up.

"it would be amazing if someone knew what im talking about"

I've been there man. Desperate and not very hopeful. But you did a good job articulating what little u do know about it.

Lets help him out guys.

—AbsolutCarib

If it's an old bumper you might at least draw some inspiration from the list Mike made here..of course, you'd be doing even better if you knew a show during which it aired.

—chix0r

Nice link, miss independent.

—oh-for

i was convinced he did, because 1 he always knows who it is (which could mean nothing) 1. he has played bumpers by hot hot heat, and i know that when they came on he was ecstatic. point being, hot hot heat is not a popular or very mainstream band, and kroq doesnt normally play much by them, making it odd that THAT song would be picked. 2. .......ummmm, anderson is a pimp. 3. after writing this and rereading it, i have actually convinced myself that anderson DOES NOT pick the bumpers.....O WAIT, I remember why i was so sure it was him. okay the night 311 was on there, (mid to late 2004) after like 2 commercial breaks creatures (for a while) was used as a bumper. obviously since the song is by 311 and so anderson was paying homage or whatever, since before that, the last time creatures was used, was more than a year ago. so obviously the bumpers arent preset. plus who else other than anderson would sit there the whole time choosing them????? idk, thats what i think

as for CrusherEagle, that is like not enough info at all. at least tell us HOW old, like whens the last time you heard it approximately. but from what you wrote, im not sure, but Holiday by green day seems to fit your description

• HOLIDAY

—Stryker311

no no, 'Holiday' goes-- da dum, nyeeer nyeeer nyeer nyeer nyeer nyeer nyeer nyeer ner, nyeer nyeer nyeer nyeer nyeer nyeer nyeer ner. Sheesh.

—i'm just saying...

A new Bumper. Or maybe an old one being revived. Anyway, the one where Adam burped on, then proceeded to talk about Drew stealing his urinal, was Reach for the Sky - Social Distortion. Only saying this because I love this song.

—Stryker311

i was wondering about this one bumper that is played. it starts out with a guitar riff and then like three guys go *a dum dum dum dum* or something like that and then the guitar plays the same riff again accompanied with a shaker and some other instrument, i think it might be an accordion. well i don’t know who it’s by but it sounds like system of a down. Please help!

—chitownluv35

i need help with this one bumper. i dont know the name of it or the name of the artist. but what i do know is that it starts off with this fast guitar riff played by one guitar and then like 3 voices go * a dum dum dum dum*. then the guitar riff plays again accompanied with a shaker and some other instrument that i think might be an accordion. please help!!!! email me if you need any more information or if you know what it is. thanks.

coocoo_35@hotmail.com

—chitownluv35

what has been the closing bumber recently? Like everynight for the past 4-8 months?

—trey

Sort of related, but not totally. I was listening to an old show from June 2003 last night. I knew right away the show open was different, but familiar. For some reason, Anderson had resurrected the old sow open featuring the "I'm not modeling anymore for the two of you!" drop. It took me right back to my college days. Good times.

—Mayonnaise

what was the closing bumper circa september 2002?

—Stu-pot

Probably Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Zephyr Song, as documented in this September 2002 show entry.

—Kevin U.

What is the closing bumper from early 2001? like, the january - april shows... i know for a fact it was played at the close of the 4-23 show with Nicole Sullivan...

—foolsama

^^X2

Anyone know?

—TheKing

This is where I miss Catloaf...

—Beat It!

gorillaz- feel good inc

—mandee

For the record, the closing song on the Nicole Sullivan show (you can hear it better in the 4-19 show) is called Sometimes by the group Ours.

Though the closing song from the March episodes is different. It's Linkin Park though I can't think of the name off hand.

—Beat It!

ankiedada was the 1st person to say "it's feel good inc" by the gorillaz.

—plurry

yes, but catloaf turned it into an art form

—pookie

I miss ankiedada. Check out his profile.

—Dusty TheHick

ankiedada was the 1st person to say "it's feel good inc" by the gorillaz.

that's like a serious fact and i'm glad i know it now.

—mandee

ankiedada

before my time. He went to duke so he's probably in jail for being a rapist right now.

—bguirk

no one raped anyone

—mandee

EVER?

—Dusty TheHick

before my time.

Actually, his last post was nearly a year after you joined.

—Dusty TheHick

Today at 10:37 AM

no one raped anyone

—mandee

it's a college. people are raping each other all the time. duh.

—bguirk

rape is a myth. if someone says they've been raped, they're either lying or it's code for a bird pooped on my shoulder.

—mandee

I've got your car.

—ZT-In