My creative writing has always been a passion of mine. I loved the craft of writing for the visions of the imagination that it evokes. I particularly love the visceral and most affecting written works. I’d like to announce my very first spoken word single, Poetry in Motion!
This is my first ever project marrying my love for creative writing, poetry, and my passion for music. This is by far the best poem that I have ever written, and it’s a narrative strung together from over a hundred song and album references from famous artists that we all know and love. What better way to present it than spoken word with original music? Below is the list of all intentional song and album mentions. Any additional references are purely incidental.
1. Holding On to Yesterday - Ambrosia
2. Days of Future Passed (album) - The Moody Blues
3. The Dead Flag Blues - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
4. Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival
5. Lightning Crashes - Live
6. Mad World - Tears for Fears
7. Toxicity - System of A Down
8. The Air That I Breathe - Famously covered by The Hollies
9. Starless - King Crimson
10. The Sound of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
11. Do You Realize? - The Flaming Lips
12. Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden
13. Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix Experience
14. Ain’t No Sunshine - Bill Withers
15. This Masquerade - George Benson, famously covered by Carpenters
16. Under Pressure - Queen and David Bowie
17. Paranoid - Black Sabbath
18. God Only Knows - The Beach Boys
19. Sympathy For The Devil - The Rolling Stones
20. Killing in The Name - Rage Against The Machine
21. The Madman Across The Water - Elton John
22. Kids With Guns - Gorillaz
23. Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Green Day
24. People Are Strange - The Doors
25. That’s the Way of the World - Earth, Wind & Fire
26. Young Americans - David Bowie
27. Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
28. Closer, and “closer to God” - Nine Inch Nails
29. Falling Away From Me - Korn
30. Down in a Hole - Alice In Chains
31. White Room - Cream
32. Schism - TOOL
33. I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do) - Daryl Hall & John Oates
34. Isn’t It a Pity - George Harrison
35. What’s Going On - Marvin Gaye
36. How Long Has This Been Going On - Ace
37. Magic Man - Heart
38. Miracles - Jefferson Starship
39. Can’t You See - Marshall Tucker Band
40. Easy Money - King Crimson
41. Fame - David Bowie
42. White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
43. A Rush of Blood to The Head - Coldplay
44. Tell Me Something Good - Rufus
45. I Just Want to Celebrate - Rare Earth
46. Stayin’ Alive - Bee Gees
47. Can’t Stop - Red Hot Chili Peppers
48. 9 to 5 - Dolly Parton
49. Do It Again - Steely Dan, The Beach Boys, other artists
50. Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd, other artists
51. Somewhere I Belong - Linkin Park
52. Fly Like an Eagle - Steve Miller Band
53. Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
54. Waiting For A Girl Like You - Foreigner
55. Always On My Mind - Famously covered by Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley
56. I Love You - Climax Blues Band
57. Time of The Season - The Zombies
58. Heart-Shaped Box - Nirvana
59. Kiss from a Rose - Seal
60. Love is Alive - Gary Wright
61. Arrow Through Me - Wings
62. We’ve Only Just Begun - Famously covered by Carpenters
63. Walk The Line - Johnny Cash
64. Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder
65. Maybe I’m Amazed - Paul McCartney
66. Don’t Stop Believin’ - Journey
67. So Into You - Atlanta Rhythm Section, other artists
68. Blinded By The Light - Bruce Springsteen, famously covered by Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
69. Imagine - John Lennon
70. Champagne Supernova, and “a champagne supernova in the sky” - Oasis
71. SOS - ABBA, other artists
72. Reach Out I’ll Be There - Four Tops
73. Saturday in the Park - Chicago
74. Come Sail Away - Styx
75. It Don’t Matter To Me, and “time is on our side” - Bread
76. Summer Breeze - Seal & Crofts
77. One More Time - Daft Punk
78. Message in a Bottle - The Police
79. Moondance - Van Morrison
80. Midnight Rider - The Allman Brothers Band
81. Right Down The Line - Gerry Rafferty
82. Goodbye to Love - Carpenters
83. The House of The Rising Sun - Traditional folk song, famously covered by The Animals
84. Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks
85. Love Will Find A Way - Pablo Cruise
86. My Girl - The Temptations
87. Heart of Gold - Neil Young
88. Superstar - Delaney & Bonnie, famously covered by Carpenters
89. Who Are You, and “I really want to know” - The Who
90. Do You Feel Like We Do - Peter Frampton
91. Listen to the Music - The Doobie Brothers
92. The Chain - Fleetwood Mac
93. River of Deceit - Mad Season
94. Policy of Truth - Depeche Mode
95. Psycho Killer - Talking Heads
96. Karma Police - Radiohead
97. What is and What Should Never Be - Led Zeppelin
98. Don’t Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
99. The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance
100. Let It Be - The Beatles
101. Wandering Star - Portishead
102. Dust in the Wind - Kansas
This spoken word piece is divided into 3 distinct thematic movements, those of which have been separated neatly by sections of music. The story goes: first is the state of affairs in the world we live in, the never ending spiral, and descent of our society and our people, second is the worldly and divine love that shines through it all, and thirdly, the call to all to fulfill their life’s purpose and destiny in the vast universe that surrounds us.
If you want to check out the Apple Music playlist I made featuring all artist references in order of appearance, you can view it here:
Thank you for your support.
With love and mercy,
DJ Dark Flow~
Copyright ©2024 Stefan Walczak, from my upcoming poetry book, the second in a series, Poems of Destiny: Prophecies & Curiosities
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