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Brazilian graphic designer and illustrator Butcher Billy got the idea of turning famous love songs into book covers of horror master Stephen King. Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart," The Smiths, "Head Over Heels" by Tears For Fears, and many other famous songs were portrayed in a very unusual way.
"This series imagines an alternate universe where some of the most desperate and tragic romantic songs in the '70s and '80s are actually horror books written by Stephen King. The concept is to look at the dark side of love by the vision of pop culture, bringing aspects of its classic stories to play the true meaning of the songs - this can be completely subverted or stressed strangeness while paying tribute to the vintage book cover designs of the original horror stories," Butcher writes on his Behance.
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Lucka Pavlová 8 years ago
I've always said this song is really creepy, it doesn't need a creepy book cover! D:
Polleekin 8 years ago
It was written to express feelings of obsession and possessiveness. I never understood why people thought it was a love song.
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Melissa Nunya 8 years ago
Actually knew someone with a stalker who would play this song on her answering machines. She had to move states and change names eventually.
Mr. Bojangles 8 years ago
The Police singing "every breath/move/bond/step you take/break/make" ... sounds to me like we need to worry more about big brother
Yennefer of Vengerberg 8 years ago
It's still a love song, just told from the stalkers perspective. It is creepy, but that was the point.
Nathan Ketcham 8 years ago
What kind of illustrator needs to cut and paste the art from a "Black Sunday" movie poster in order to depict a simple drawing of woman's face? If Butcher Billy is actually a real "illustrator" he wouldn't steal other illustrator's art. But, yah, you did a funny thing with your Photoshop...
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Luck Yeah 8 years ago
Looks like you both have got this covered. I'll back away slowly.
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Mr. Bojangles 8 years ago
Ummm, this is an anti-love song ... about how she'll survive without him
Aahzmandus Pervect 8 years ago
Well, it doesn't matter, it is now a zombie book!
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Mr. Bojangles 8 years ago
Louis Vuitton purse eh? Brings new meaning to "it'll cost an arm and a leg"
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Mr. Bojangles 8 years ago
wow ... mind blown ... it never occurred to me that Pink Floyd sang love songs! Now I'll have to listen to all their old records with a new understanding of what they were singing about (Comfortably Numb, Brain Damage, Run Like Hell ... it's all becoming clear now)
Ramie Mcdowell 8 years ago
It's about their original frontman Syd Barrett. So yes a love song but not in the traditional sense
Enomfon Asuquo 8 years ago
Wow, not a lot of people know Wish you where here by pink floyd. Props to you my friend
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Taryn Wallace 8 years ago
It was used as a theme song in a play called Dance of the Vampires with the one and only Michael Crawford they totally could've done that
#PugLife 8 years ago
That picture, its from a movie or book, I think. The Invention of Hugo mentions it.
Mad Hatter 4 years ago
it's from an old silent movie called "Voyage to the moon"
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Janus Sanders 4 years ago
i think maybe the cover suggests she's being kidnapped? if not then idk
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Hisseefit 8 years ago
That movie should definitely be watched by those that are starting to obsess too much about a fling. Quirky.
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Taryn Wallace 8 years ago
I can't hear this song without picturing the music video David Hasselhoff did... if u haven't watched it ur missing out!!!
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Pretty Pangolin 6 years ago
Did Roy Orbison ever do this song? I was thinking just the other day how he would have totally slayed it.
Melinda Boyd 8 years ago
Joan Jett does he best version of this Everly Brothers song. I hate the Nazareth version!
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Anita Marx 8 years ago
Sadly Depeche Mode frontman Dave Gahan loved the needles way to much...
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Jilltdcatlady 8 years ago
Seriously, I can see this as being a novella. Say it starts out with happy couples in a small town and goes Beauty and the Beast in reverse. I want royalties if this happens!
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Thundercuss 8 years ago
This is already a Stephen King book. The Ramones song was part of the movie soundtrack.
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Juliana Jindra 8 years ago
That is the name of the song: http://www.arcticmonkeys.com/release.php?id=28
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boredpandana 5 years ago
This might be the best article on here. Keep it up dude this is f****ing sick
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What do you think ?
Brandon Collinsworth 8 years ago
With the book pictures all these titles now sound like episodes of Tales from the Crypt
Becca hill 8 years ago
These are soo good! I kinda wish they were real soo I can read them! Haha
catherine waite 8 years ago
They are good, but maybe some of the songs needed more research into what the writers said it was about. Even the police have said every breath is not a love song. It's about someone being stalked. And they are telling the victim they will never leave them.
Emily Buckmaster 8 years ago
I made this comment as well! Sting confirmed multiple times in interviews it is a song about stalking not love! Yet people still declare it "their song" or use it as a wedding song. Honestly, if someone thinks that a song that says things like "oh can't you see, you belong to me" is a love song, they may not have the healthiest ideas of relationships. lol.
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Aahzmandus Pervect 8 years ago
I don't like the ones with the actual artists included, but overall, this is brilliant!
FAKENAME FAKENAME 8 years ago
I'll be honest, these are more like retro horror movie posters... just putting it out there...
Hayley Rodgers 8 years ago
Don't read much in the way of murder mystery? Because these look a lot like the covers I've
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Brandon Collinsworth 8 years ago
With the book pictures all these titles now sound like episodes of Tales from the Crypt
Becca hill 8 years ago
These are soo good! I kinda wish they were real soo I can read them! Haha
catherine waite 8 years ago
They are good, but maybe some of the songs needed more research into what the writers said it was about. Even the police have said every breath is not a love song. It's about someone being stalked. And they are telling the victim they will never leave them.
Emily Buckmaster 8 years ago
I made this comment as well! Sting confirmed multiple times in interviews it is a song about stalking not love! Yet people still declare it "their song" or use it as a wedding song. Honestly, if someone thinks that a song that says things like "oh can't you see, you belong to me" is a love song, they may not have the healthiest ideas of relationships. lol.
Load More Replies... Aahzmandus Pervect 8 years ago
I don't like the ones with the actual artists included, but overall, this is brilliant!
FAKENAME FAKENAME 8 years ago
I'll be honest, these are more like retro horror movie posters... just putting it out there...
Hayley Rodgers 8 years ago
Don't read much in the way of murder mystery? Because these look a lot like the covers I've
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