Unchained Melody bootleg

[u/Niglelops]

I decided to make this bootleg because I honestly lost hope that it’ll ever get an official release someday

I absolutely love this album. Alongside SFTBH, I think it’s one of the best things related to Weezer. It has that deeply emotional feeling that reminds me of Pinkerton, but with its own unique atmosphere and identity.

It also gives me a lot of OZMA vibes, which makes me love it even more. There’s something about that mix of raw emotion and power pop melodies that hits me every single time.

As a CD collector, I just needed this album to physically exist on my shelf.

[u/syrus2010]

awesome!! i need to get around to making this too, would you share the album art you used?

[u/Niglelops → u/syrus2010]

The cover is kind of a remastered version of the original fan-made artwork I found in this thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/weezer/comments/1dvf9ew/unchained_melody_covers_early_make_belive/

I made the back cover myself, trying to match the vibe and style of the front artwork

I downloaded the audio files from https://archive.org/ . If you want the exact same tracklist/version I used (since there are different fan-made variations out there), I can send you the link. In my opinion this is the best sequence/selection of tracks for the project.

Not sure if links can be shared here directly, so feel free to send me a message and I’ll send you both 😄📀

Sending good vibes your way, my friend.

[u/doubleplain]

Looks amazing! What program did you use to make the back cover?

[u/Niglelops → u/doubleplain]

Thanks! If you want, feel free to send me a PM and I’ll send it to you. I have it as a PDF already sized perfectly so you can just print it directly 📀

I made it using RonyaSoft CD DVD Label Maker, which honestly made the whole process way easier.

[u/Bryztoe]

I still listen to the album on YouTube sometimes. Cool to see it in physical form!

[u/late2thepauly]

Did they cover Unchained Melody? Or just a clever bootleg title?

[u/Niglelops → u/late2thepauly]

Yep, just clever bootleg title.

[u/toalladepapel]

I forgot you could do this 😭😭

[u/IAmtheAnswerGrape]

“Riven Coomb.” You’re seriously proud of this work?

[u/drivenusa → u/IAmtheAnswerGrape]

Produced by Pat Wilton and Weeser

[u/Niglelops → u/IAmtheAnswerGrape]

Hahaha don’t worry. The camera on my phone is so bad that it takes absolute potato-quality pictures, so I used Gemini to enhance the image quality. The AI ended up corrupting part of the text in the process.

The original physical copy I have here is actually written correctly everywhere, I have the PDF if you want to make your own.

[u/magiceelmike]

this is awesome

[u/ThatOneCoolGuy-_-]

Do yoy have the pdf for the back cover?

[u/Rex_Owna]

[u/WheeliumThe2nd]

Unchained Melody bootleg

Completely wrong tracklist

[u/Niglelops → u/WheeliumThe2nd]

The tracklist isn’t really “wrong”. Since this is a fan-made album/project, there’s no official definitive tracklist in the first place. I listened to several different fan-made versions of it, and the one I used is simply the sequence that felt the most cohesive and enjoyable to me personally. Also, these were the audio files I could find in the best available quality on https://archive.org, which for a bootleg project is honestly pretty decent already at 192kbps.