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* ''[[We Are All on Drugs]]'' (UK Retail CD - live) (2005) | * ''[[We Are All on Drugs]]'' (UK Retail CD - live) (2005) | ||
==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
"Burndt Jamb" initially debuted as an instrumental. It was first performed live on the [[Hooptie Tour]] only five days after ''[[The Green Album]]'' was released. The band first recorded a demo of it seven days after that, at [[DC Demos|Monster Island Studios in Washington, D.C.]]. This session was booked in hopes of finding a producer for the band's yet-unnamed fourth album. The song was played the following month for the show ''The Evening Session'' for [[BBC Sessions|BBC Radio 1]]. It wasn't until January of 2002 that "Burdnt Jamb" received lyrics, during [[Maladroit Demos#Maladroit sessions|formal demoing sessions for ''Maladroit'']]. These lyrics were scrapped and rewritten before the album's final release. | {{Small quote box|His newest obsession, he says, is goth. He holds up his hands to show off black fingernail polish, silver rings and leather wrist cuffs. "I never noticed goth before," he says. "But then I got really fascinated with this one girl. A music style just gets wrapped up with the vision of the girl, and it overtakes your consciousness.|''[[Rolling Stone article - June 20, 2002|Rolling Stone]]'' interview with [[Rivers Cuomo]], 2002}}"Burndt Jamb" initially debuted as an instrumental. It was first performed live on the [[Hooptie Tour]] only five days after ''[[The Green Album]]'' was released. The band first recorded a demo of it seven days after that, at [[DC Demos|Monster Island Studios in Washington, D.C.]]. This session was booked in hopes of finding a producer for the band's yet-unnamed fourth album. The song was played the following month for the show ''The Evening Session'' for [[BBC Sessions|BBC Radio 1]]. It wasn't until January of 2002 that "Burdnt Jamb" received lyrics, during [[Maladroit Demos#Maladroit sessions|formal demoing sessions for ''Maladroit'']]. These lyrics were scrapped and rewritten before the album's final release. | ||
Burnt Jamb is one of the songs that can be heard on the menu for The [[Video Capture Device]] DVD, although like with other menu tracks, it's only the intro being looped. | Burnt Jamb is one of the songs that can be heard on the menu for The [[Video Capture Device]] DVD, although like with other menu tracks, it's only the intro being looped. | ||
A live rendition of the song, recorded on [[July 26]], [[2002]] at [[Weezer concert: 07/26/2002 - Camden, NJ|a show in Camden, New Jersey]], appeared as a | A live rendition of the song, recorded on [[July 26]], [[2002]] at [[Weezer concert: 07/26/2002 - Camden, NJ|a show in Camden, New Jersey]], appeared as a B-side on the UK retail CD of "[[We Are All on Drugs]]", and as a bonus track on the international release of ''[[Make Believe]]''. | ||
The riff used throughout the song has been compared to the melody of the song [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14pitnJlcv4 “Breezin”] by George Benson by numerous fans.<ref>Soyrev. July 24, 2008. Burndt Jamb. ''Teenage Victory Songs''. http://tvs.soymilkrevolution.com/?p=16.</ref><ref>John Caroll. July 11, 2018. Burndt Jamb. ''Post-Pinkerton''. https://postpinkerton.com/burndt-jamb.</ref> No statement on the similarity has been made by the band. | The riff used throughout the song has been compared to the melody of the song [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14pitnJlcv4 “Breezin”] by George Benson by numerous fans.<ref>Soyrev. July 24, 2008. Burndt Jamb. ''Teenage Victory Songs''. http://tvs.soymilkrevolution.com/?p=16.</ref><ref>John Caroll. July 11, 2018. Burndt Jamb. ''Post-Pinkerton''. https://postpinkerton.com/burndt-jamb.</ref> No statement on the similarity has been made by the band. | ||
When [[Weezer concert: 08/08/2018 - Inglewood, CA|performing "Burndt Jamb" live in 2018]] with [[Brian Bell]] singing lead, the band altered the final lyrics of every verse to reference lyrics from [[Nirvana|Nirvana's]] "[[Smells Like Teen Spirit]]." When performing it live during the [[Voyage to the Blue Planet]] tour, the band replaced Burnt Jamb's instrumental chorus with the chorus to the song "[[Everybody Get Dangerous]]." | |||
==Audio== | ==Audio== | ||
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