Burndt Jamb

"Burndt Jamb"
Album track by Weezer
Album	Maladroit
Released	May 14, 2002
Recorded	N/A
Length	2:39
Label	Geffen
Writer(s)	Rivers Cuomo
RC#	596
COR#	277
Producer(s)	Weezer, Rod Cervera, Chad Bamford
Status	Released
Live debut	May 20, 2001 in St. Louis, MO
Maladroit track listing
"Slob" (6) "Burndt Jamb" (7) "Space Rock" (8)
Rivers Cuomo song chronology
"Let It Ride" (RC# 595) "Burndt Jamb" (RC# 596) "High Up Above" (RC# 597)

"Burndt Jamb" is the seventh track on Maladroit.

Appearances

• Maladroit (2002)
• Make Believe (live - international bonus track) (2005)
• We Are All on Drugs (UK Retail CD - live) (2005)

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 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 Radio 1. It wasn't until January of 2002 that "Burdnt Jamb" received lyrics, during formal demoing sessions for Maladroit. These lyrics were scrapped and rewritten before the album's final release. In a 2002 Rolling Stone article by Jenny Eliscu, Rivers Cuomo alluded to his fascination with a specific goth girl, which may have inspired the "Gothic flavor" lyric:

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."

A live rendition of the song, recorded on July 26, 2002 at 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. When playing the song live in 2018 with Brian Bell singing lead, the band altered the final lyrics of every verse to reference lyrics from Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit."

The riff used throughout the song has been compared to the melody of the song “Breezin” by George Benson by numerous fans. No statement on the similarity has been made by the band.

Known recordings

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Performer(s)	Title	Filename	Date of recording	Recording location	Length	Appeared on	Notes
Rivers Cuomo	Burndt Jamb	56 burndt jamb precursor.mp3	May 1998		0:16	Alone VI: The Black Room
Weezer	Burndt Jamb	WEEZER-2001-05-30-Burndt_Jamb_277.mp3	May 27, 2001	Monster Island Studios, Washington, D.C	2:54	Released on weezer.com
Weezer	Burndt Jamb		June 13, 2001	BBC Studios, London, England	2:31	The Evening Session with Steve Lamacq	Radio broadcast, bootlegged by fans
Weezer	Burndt Jamb	WEEZER-2002-01-08_03Burndt_Jamb_277.mp3	January 8, 2002	Cello Studios, Los Angeles, CA	4:04	Released on weezer.com
Weezer	Burndt Jamb	WEEZER-2002-01-10_02Burndt_Jamb_277.mp3	January 10, 2002	Cello Studios, Los Angeles, CA	4:12	Released on weezer.com
Weezer	Burndt Jamb	WEEZER-2002-01-11_02Burndt_Jamb_277.mp3	January 11, 2002	Cello Studios, Los Angeles, CA	3:51	Released on weezer.com
Weezer	Burndt Jamb		2002	Cello Studios, Los Angeles, CA	2:38	Maladroit (unmastered German promo)
Weezer	Burndt Jamb		2002	Cello Studios, Los Angeles, CA	2:39	Maladroit
Weezer	Burndt Jamb		July 26, 2002	Tweeter Center, Camden, NJ	4:24	Make Believe (Japan) "We Are All on Drugs" (UK Retail CD)

Personnel

• Rivers Cuomo – lead guitar, lead vocals
• Patrick Wilson – percussion
• Brian Bell – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
• Scott Shriner – bass guitar, backing vocals

Lyrics

Gothic flavor
How I miss you
If I only
Once could kiss you

I'd be happy (Do-do-do-do)
For one moment (Do-do-do-do)
Of my lifetime (Do-do-do-do)
I'd be there

And the water
Running over
Me is growing
Ever colder

Make me happy (Do-do-do-do)
For one moment (Do-do-do-do)
Of my lifetime (Do-do-do-do)
I'd be there

Make me happy (Do-do-do-do)
For one moment (Do-do-do-do)
Of my lifetime (Do-do-do-do)
I'd be there

Ooo-ooo-ooo

Lyrics (Demos)

Now you want me
And you need me
I have got to
Get to leavin'
If you move on
Down that highway
I'll be burning
I'll be there, yeah

Now it's over
We can go home
Just one last verse
And we're all done

See also

• List of Weezer songs
• Maladroit
• Maladroit Demos
• BBC Sessions
• DC Demos

External Links

Teenage Victory Songs entry for "Burndt Jamb"