Bumpers (album)


Bumpers is a double sampler album from Island Records, released in Europe and Australasia in 1970; there were minor variations in track listings within Europe but the Australian release was fundamentally different. The title refers to the training shoes which can be seen on the front of the album cover but there may also be a less obvious reference to the meaning "unusually large, abundant or excellent". The album is left to present itself; there are no sleeve notes, the gatefold interior consists of a photograph showing publicity shots of the featured acts attached to the bole of a tree, without any identification. This image is flanked by the track listings, but even there, the information given is unreliable. Unlike its predecessors You Can All Join In and Nice Enough To Eat, there are no credits for cover art, photography or design. The English version of the album came out in two pressings, one with the pink label and "i" logo, the other with the label displaying a palm motif on a white background and a pink rim, each version with some minor variations in the production of individual tracks.

UK track listing

Side One

  1. "Every Mother's Son" - Traffic
  2. "Love" - Bronco
  3. "I Am the Walrus" - Spooky Tooth
  4. "Jesus, Buddha, Moses, Gauranga" - Quintessence

    Side Two

  5. "Thunderbuck Ram" - Mott the Hoople
  6. "Nothing To Say" - Jethro Tull
  7. "Going Back West" - Jimmy Cliff
  8. "Send Your Son To Die" - Blodwyn Pig
  9. "Little Woman" - Dave Mason

    Side Three

  10. "Go Out And Get It" - John & Beverley Martyn
  11. "Cadence & Cascade" - King Crimson
  12. "Reaching Out On All Sides" - If
  13. "Oh I Wept" - Free
  14. "Hazey Jane" - Nick Drake

    Side Four

  15. "Walk Awhile" - Fairport Convention
  16. "Maybe You're Right" - Cat Stevens
  17. "Island" - Renaissance
  18. "The Sea" - Fotheringay
  19. "Take Me To Your Leader" -Clouds

    Australian track listing

Side One

  1. "All Right Now" - Free
  2. "Notting Hill Gate" - Quintessance
  3. "Empty Pages" - Traffic
  4. "I'm a Man" - Spencer Davis Group
  5. "Primrose Hill" - John and Beverley Martin

    Side Two

  6. "Mona Bone Jakon" - Cat Stevens
  7. "You Really Got Me" - Mott the Hoople
  8. "Lady D'Arbanville" - Cat Stevens
  9. "Wonderful World, Beautiful People" - Jimmy Cliff
  10. "Peace in the End" - Fotheringay

    Side Three

  11. "I Am the Walrus" - Spooky Tooth
  12. "The Promised Land" - If
  13. "Somewhere Down the Line" - Tramline
  14. "Loosen Up" - Alan Bown
  15. "Crazy Man Michael" - Fairport Convention

    Side Four

  16. "Wild World" - Jimmy Cliff
  17. "Love Really Changed Me" - Spooky Tooth
  18. "Dear Mr Fantasy" - Traffic
  19. "Shiva's Chant" - Quintessence
  20. "Anthem" - Amazing Blondel