 While Kızılok's music hadn't previously been especially concerned with political themes, in the 1970s his music began to become more intertwined with politics.He set the poetry of a number of prominent politically active poets to music, including Ahmed Arif's "Vurulmuşum" (1971), Aşık Mahzuni Şerif's "Darağacı" (1975) and former prime minister Bülent Ecevit's "Olmasın Varsın (debuted live on TV in 1975).His album "Not Defterimden" (1977) featured experiments in atonal music and readings of poetry by Nazim Hikmet.