

Big, important, significant records were missing completely.

Contrary to popular opinion, not everything was available, in the best case still in miserable quality or as badly made bootleg. A momentous step, because this was the necessary and right hanger for an own label: bringing light into the attic of pop music history.īecause as wide and open as the world seemed after Napster, it was so limited. He was sent to Spain to join the sublabel Munster Records and was responsible for the re-releases of Spacemen 3 and the Stooges. At that time, he had already thought about starting his own label several times and got the necessary tools from this indie giant. After his graduation, Sullivan worked for Sub Pop in Seattle. Just an apparent contradiction, which Matt Sullivan experienced at that time. The label from Seattle, Washington, founded in 2002, came into being at a time when large companies were suing Napster, when feature pages in the file-sharing networks saw the end of pop music and while countless young people were tapping into an archive that would have been denied to them forever for monetary reasons alone, without pay-to-play and illegal (they always are and always have been, of course) downloads. So how can there be a better name than Light In The Attic? Above all, labels that specialize in reissues are such capacities of illumination, of enlightenment. What is releasing records other than bringing »light« into the darkness? Music that would otherwise never see the »light« of day is captured on vinyl or cassette and made accessible to people. Shel Silverstein is part of a balanced, healthy childhood, so quoting him could never be pretentious.You can find the Vinyl records of Light In The Attic in the (.

If you were to drop this quote at a dinner party, would you get an in-unison "awww" or would everyone roll their eyes and never invite you back? Here it is, on a scale of 1-10. It's a compliment, so go ahead and take it that way. People might use this quote as a shorthand way to say that you're pretty darn bright. That's why he's ready to go on this poetic adventure with them! Hey, can we come along, too? Where you've heard it He might be on the outside of the house, but Shel Silverstein knows that young readers can be curious and brilliant. The kid who's picking up this book has got some smarts flickering on upstairs and the poet gets it. The idea of a light being on in the attic probably refers to the reader's brain. This is the first line from the first poem in Shel Silverstein's poetry collection A Light in the Attic, so you know the author has invested a lot in this one little verse. This line is from the poem "A Light in the Attic" by Shel Silverstein (1981). Courage Hope Knowledge Learning Experience Intelligence Poetry Context
