Sorry for the weird visual glitch at 0:11.... wasn't there when I began to export. Nonetheless, hope you enjoy! Edit 2: Small correction, my fact about the albums being releases a year apart is wrong, they were releases 6 months apart i.e. 2 albums per year. Sorry for the mistake! Edit: Since people keep asking for it, here's the link for the video of the caretaker singing heartaches: czcams.com/video/oNxfhnQpfsw/video.html
I agree completely! Album one would simply be a collection of old songs that have remained untampered with. “it’s just a burning memory” would become “Heartaches” and so on. I believe the point of stage 1 is that we think these are the original memories, not realizing that the degradation of memory has already begun. We think it’s normal. I think that adds a ton to album 1
Haha I can't take credit for it, it appeared in the caretaker discord last year and I adored it and saved it. Makes for a good character for the video :)
"Everywhere an empty bliss is not by The Caretaker, it's by Kirby" I forgot that James Kirby is a person and I thought you were about to prove that Kirby Nintendo, a barely sentient pink kickball, created one of the most profound commentaries on dementia in recent history
Dosent help that in the lore, the barely sentient pink ball is a eldricht being that can transform into a acurrate biblic angel or a void, and the only reason he dosent transform in those thinks is because CAKE. Sorry for bad english.
The final memory that Alzheimer's patients have is of their music. At stage 7 the person is effectively gone and therefore there is no music, no life left in them. They are a husk of their former selves
ADDITION TO THE ICEBERG: A youtuber named "jarballe" uploaded Stage 1 of EATEOT 4 years ago. It's nearly identical to the one vvmtest uploaded except for one thing: B3 - Quiet Internal Rebellions, despite being from the same album, are 2 completely different songs. In the final version the two songs: B3 - Quiet Internal Rebellions and E8 - Long Term Dusk Glimpses are the exact same song. This most likely explains why Leyland Kirby changed the song in the finished product; to serve as foreshadowing of The Caretaker's mental decline.
In a way it kinda is funny that that's how it really works, as because of the internet and such, the things about the first stages are more commonly known and are less in number, but more are really important in the later stages but people don't bother researching it or anything so they don't know as much as the later stages, thus making them longer and longer
dementia is the reason i’m scared to get old. theres nothing i can do besides just...sit and watch my memories fade away. nobody would be able to do anything, and if they tried helping i would forget them and their kindness.
Exactly, it's a very scary thing and I think this album does an incredible job at making you think about it. It's definitely changed how I look at some things
I've thought about taking a lethal injection if I was ever diagnosed with it. Now, I wonder if it would be worth it to create a literary document from the perspective of a patient, if it came to that.
Another thing, the (in)famous air raid siren that resembles the hell sirens was used during the blitz (bombing of London). Al bowlly was killed during the the blitz when a bomb sent the door to his flat into him.
@@alyssasalmon4883 Don't shift the burden of proof to him, the one who's making the claim is the original poster, so he is the one who has to prove it.
I showed the project to my grandma, she liked it. I only showed her the early stuff and none of the later stuff but she was interested in the concept and said it was a good idea
Bruh, i just spent 30 minutes watching a talking piece of clay with legs and a cigarette talk about music. If you described this to someone 20 years ago, they'd think you're insane.
This community is so heartwarming and bittersweet because of the subject. My brother and I bonded a lot through the caretaker and coming to terms with learning about what our loved ones have struggled so much with
As a child my greatest fear was weird shadows in my room at night that was just my stuff laying around everywhere. As an adult, my greatest fear is that I’ll end up with Alzheimer’s/dementia when I’m old.
I always thought that The Caretaker was (as the name suggests) a caretaker for old people and each album represented a different patient they was taking care of that was suffering from an issue different than the last, as to say, each person had their own stories of life that they would tell to The Caretaker himself. Those stories were what were in the albums. The _Everywhere at the End of Time_ is the longest because that was the person he attended the most and the one with dementia that was just eating off their brain. I never thought as The Caretaker as an "album collective entity". To me, they seemed more like a person, a character, that was just doing their job. Though the idea of making The Caretaker a thing which had all these albums correlated to it, making them being an auditory representation of its experiences and able to develop mental issues like a real person, an interesting concept just as much as my prior theory. I like this sort of role play. I wish more artists dabbled in more experimental projects like these. We would have a room filled with projects different and more unique than the last to talk about.
Isn't the name 'The Caretaker" inspired from The Shining? In the movie Jack Torrence becomes The Caretaker for the unbearably eerie Overlook hotel as in the painting portrait in the end. In the sequel, Doctor Sleep, his son (Danny) comes to visit him in the same hotel, were he refuses that he was ever his dad, insisting that he was always the Caretaker. Also, at the end of The Shining were the portrait in the hotel displays Jack as the caretaker, Al Bowlly's Midnight the Stars and You is played which i believe Kirby has also sampled???? Someone must know more about this, but this project was heavily drawn on by The Shining, a film which pretty much made the atmosphere of empty ballrooms, which makes the Overlook Hotel the greatest liminal space of all time.
I am going to watch the video but first I want to listen to Everywhere at the End of Time all the way through without stopping -- but don't worry, this video is in my watch later list ^^
There exists even creepier album of the Caretaker: Theoretically pure anterograde amnesia. Or more peaceful ambients too. Somehow people know only EATEOT
The hell sirens originally had the meaning of the caretaker himself graining the horrific thought he denied for years in his rotting brain. The thought of "Oh dear God, I am really going to forget everything, and there is nothing I can do about it." A losing battle is raging hints to this as you can hear it faintly with heartaches before it starts. Basically this is the war in the mind finally being lost, only for death to then after slowly choke it out. However, the war theories can not be denied. There are many different colors and angles of trauma and a lot of other people can hear this as a sign of war which gives off a more eerie effect, especially considering this. Imagine you visiting the caretaker. You hear this sample and think jeez, post traumatic memory, when in reality the caretaker really fears forgetting it all, and it is much more horrifying then any trauma he must have experienced.
Hm... The true moment of clarity? Not the last memories that were barely here but almost clear... But a horrible realization, taken almost out of context, caused by a fleeting memory... And soon to be forgotten.
19:45 it sounds more like something known as a ‘Jericho Siren’, which were sirens attached to the underside of Germany’s dive bomber JU-87 “Stukas” during the Second World War, their purpose being to psychologically terrify the enemy when the bomber in question is diving towards the enemy. If true, then they certainly did an awfully great job.
If I'm correct, the Jericho Trumpets were just a noise caused from the Junker diving, but I might be wrong. Also, ironically, a large amount of Luftwaffe pilots removed the Trumpets because it was "very annoying".
@@GRAHAMICVS And the Luftwaffe names ties to those mines that inadvertently resulted in Al Bowlly's death during a German air raid during World War II.
I'd like to think that the missing 7th stage is just whatever you were listening to before as a perfectly normal stage which becomes before stage 1 in eateot
I've come up with a theory about EATEOT Since the final 5 minutes uses the song "Friends Past Reunited". I believe it actually represents Terminal Lucidity, not death or going to heaven. Because now the caretaker remembers everything, their favorite places to go, where they've been, and their family and friends. Which is why the sample that was used was Friends Past Reunited. Hopefully I did a good job explaining my theory, thanks for reading
One thing I wanna say is that the "Albums 1-6 actually represent stages 2-7 of dementia" is actually factually true, because dementia only starts effecting you in the second stage. Technically we all have stage 1 dementia, so the previous album being stage one is correct because it wasn't about dementia, so that means it could only be about stage 1. It also lines up with the shift between volume 3 and 4, because stage 5 is considered the "tipping point" for most people when dementia really gets serious.
Wow uh, the viewcount is so low for such a great video. Clear speaking voice, balanced audio between the background and your voice, clear mic, visuals to keep engaged. This is really, really good. It doesn't feel right for this to have under 1K views. Subbed, definitely.
Thanks man! I'll be honest, I've neglected this channel and not uploaded a lot since I do music and am more active on bandcamp and twitter but, I'm excited to do more videos like these
I feel like EATEOT somewhat ruined my life. After I've heard the album for the first time, I couldn't stop myself from feeling a constant fear of losing my memories. I think, it would have been much better, if I never ever listened to EATEOT.
@@badman843 Thank you, bud. Things have changed for a bit, since I wrote the comment. I've got lots of support from my siblings and friends and now I'm trying to negate the chances of getting dementia that early via physical and mental exercises, reading all books and just enjoy every moment of the life with people I know and love. Once again, thank you for the reply, man!
all the artist who preformed heartaches I know of Al bowlly [Sampled] Seger Ellis [Sampled] Ted Weems Patsy Cline The Marcel's Bert Lowns Guy Lombardo [Sampled]
tbh I’m only two minutes in and you sound like you’d be a good, well-mannered podcaster, I hope I can finish this but I’m sorta floating around on YT rn so I’m not being the most chaste with my attention span, but you seem like an interesting homie
I think this is the only "Iceberg" video I've actually clicked on, and gotta say, loving it so far. Edit: Also, album 6 is actually album 7, the first album is just whatever "normal" music you listen to because stage 1 of Alzheimer's is "no dementia".
Heartaches is an example of first in last out. Your memory degenerates in reverse. Its probably symbolic of a song or memory that's burned itself early on and was fighting to stay
19:26 Watch me perform the fastest NOPE in the west. Also just out of curiosity I played that part at the lowest volume and can still here it, god the hell sirens are truly the end all be all representation of hell.
7:13 can confirm, this is the setup of figure/still life drawing. The wood panel is set up on an easel and this blue paper tape is what holds your paper on the canvas. What’s interesting is that these wooden panels are usually covered in paint and other art mediums and you have these multiple outlines of all the different canvases used over the years. But here there’s nothing.
Nice video dude. Personally the most scary thing about the Hell Sirens is the relapse to the storm like sounds after. You’d feel like after such a horrid moment you’d get a break, but no you go right into the storm. I also find the war theory quitte gimmicky and therefor don’t really hope its true.
So when it comes to an alternative ending, this is what I could find: czcams.com/video/sOwwI6wDzrU/video.html In some way I prefer this ending. Not because it's happier but because it feels like something the caretaker would recognize as one of his own creations. Not the sound of angelic singing, but this instrumental. To me it represents terminal lucidity even better. This music is actually coherent, it feels familiar. However, even though memory is sort of back, it is only back for so long. The caretaker is clutches onto life with a weak grasp. As the music goes on it becomes more and more clear that the end is near. Everything the caretaker had worked on, everything that brought meaning to his life is at a close. Until silence.
i imagine album 7 is missing because anyone who has reached stage 7 dementia probably doesnt have much of a mind left at all... and likewise to other people they will appear like an empty husk... a body whose inhabitant has long been lost. So if the 7th album was released on vinyl it would be like a sleave with no record in it.
Thank you for an awesome video! It deserves a lot of views. But i wish you'd talk a little more about other albums, and not just spin around EATEOT, like a lot of people do. I always see everyone care only about EATEOT, and not pay attention to his other works. Still a great video. (I recognized the abomination in the middle of the screen, it was made by my good friend from caretaker discord lol) (Also, recognized Mr Mister's sample log)
Yes, I agree that I've focused on EATEOT a lot more, and I do intend on doing a longer video about the entire discography someday, not as an iceberg vid but just as a video essay instead. Glad you enjoyed the vid :) And I love the abomination! I remember when I was part of the discord before uni got too busy, it was a great time. I'm glad people liked seeing my Caretaker collection, plus it was always exciting when new samples were found.
As a sidenote my personal theory is that terminal lucidity is caused the same way deathbed out of body experiances are or someone life flashes between someone's eyes is because it's the brains last ditch all in effort to try to survive, in people with undamaged brains this manifest as something akin to hyperawareness and insanely active brain activity while in those with heavily damaged brains this manifest as normal levels of brain function to before they sustained severe brain damage
They believe it may be, like near death experiences, a mass release of neurotransmitters, possibly in a final attempt to stay alive (akin to theories about near death experiences and stress hormones). It’s paradoxical, much like how some animals wake up faster from MORE potent tranquilizers (it might have to do with the severity of the stress), but something that might help treat these disorders in the future. My evidence for this theory is that 4,000 genes pertaining to rapid growth and regeneration are activated after death in an attempt to revive the dead body (of course it fails because metabolic processes have stopped). The only difference between this and actually reverting to an embryonic state is that a specific species of jellyfish activates (likely similar) genes and reverts back to an embryonic state, rendering it immortal (which makes me wonder if those activations could revert stem cells into pluripotent stem cells. Maybe it takes making the body think it’s dead or almost dead to regenerate limbs).
I think the song sample for “It’s Just a Burning Memory” was supposed to represent a very crucial and active memory that the Caretaker had in their every day life hence why it was used so many times, maybe something like a significant other given how the track has hints almost a romantic setting in a ballroom, it could’ve even been a wedding song/crucial piece of music that they associate to a significant other in that same sense (the abrupt ending of the track’s echo symbolizing the last time they’d ever remember them clearly without distortion, or alluding to the end of those glory days); then as the stages go on, it’s added to every stage to show how such a fond memory that was once very clear and present in their life became mangled and hard to conceptualize as their condition worsened, but still remained despite deteriorating because of how impactful the memory was. The title itself “it’s just a burning memory” almost being a way of describing this very near and dear person/important memory as nothing more than that, “a burning memory” after being diagnosed with dementia, no matter how crucial of a part this memory played in their life before they were aware of their illness.
I agree, the constant usage of that sample as well as the sample used in Libet's Delay (goodnight my beautiful) is either because it's just Kirby's favourite set of samples, or because of canon reasons like you mention.
I’d like to imagine stage 6 art work is just a random memory of some home remodeling from younger teenage years, or home construction. Of all the precious memories they had this is the only one left they can recall. I bland pointless moment of a something that had no meaning or reason to it, no joy or love or peace. And that’s all the person can remember in the end.
It is probably terminal lucidity(brain of the patient fires all of the remaining neurons for a unknown reason and the patient remembers some of his memories. However, the patient usually dies days later the terminal lucidity happens due to the brain damading itself by firing all of the remaining neurons
Holy shit thank you so much for talking about that exhibition in France, as soon as it said they were back in stock I bought a copy. Can't wait to hear it once it crosses the Atlantic.
@@ookiiani It just showed up and I looked through the entire exhibition in less than a day. I loved the entire thing, showed so much about Kirby and Seal's respective artistic processes. Thank you so much for mentioning it.
fantastic video!! thank you so much for taking the time to make this - I so appreciated listening to someone who really appreciates Kirby's work. Personally, I've not had too much issue with the memes - I find them really entertaining. I think I've had more issue with just edgelords refusing to be respectful about the subject matter. However, I think it likely comes from a place of fear though on their own end, so I've been letting it slide. :) Can't wait to see more from you in the future!
I'm fine with the memes too, I included some in here completely just because I liked them and found them funny I'm with you though; the one that boiled my blood a bit was people purposefully telling others to not listen to the album because it was "purposefully designed to scare you and make you freak out" which is just a complete bastardisation of the subject matter. If you have trouble listening the album, don't listen to it. Don't then go and tell others to not listen to it and lie about what it's about just to turn it into a boogeyman for others to get scared of and miss the point entirely.... Thank you for the kind words though!
@@ookiiani yeah, that bothered the hell out of me. They definitely were missing the mark! I think its fine to be scared of course but for me, it really helped remind me of how even at the worst moments of my grandmother's dementia, there were still a ton of beautiful moments and memories to be made. I'm glad the people that were treating EATEOT as a creepypasta seem to have sort of backed off recently.
I'm a spectator of The Caretaker server, and I have to say you made this video great! Keep up the good stuff! I also have to say that a lot of the things in this are quite accurate too.
I think the last 6 minutes are intentionally open to interpretation because of the different worldviews of us listeners. Many of us don't believe in afterlife and many people near death still experience hallucinations, some just happen to be euphoric. I think the last quiet minute marks the Caretaker having just died and also a minute of silence for the deceased.
I think that the last image of EATEOT, is a building but one door is the only thing that is "not break" of this building, but she about to fall (sorry for bad english)
at about 3 i woke up because of a storm, and I couldn't fall back asleep so I grabbed some hot chocolate and listened to the caretaker while listening to the rain and feeling the cold air . I specifically listened to 'a Stairway to the Stars'. That may have been my first caretaker album a few years back, I honestly don't remember (how ironic)
The fact that the final sample is Friends Past Reunited from The Caretaker's first album really drives home the narrative of him going through Terminal Lucidity as not only is it his final coherent memory, but it's a memory from so long ago.
5:02 its actually because the first stage of dementia was too normal, it would basically just be normal music, therefore stage 1 of eateot represents stage 2 in the actually dementia buildup, stage 6 IS stage 7.
I kinda thought that the "Hell Sirens" were maybe a memory or feeling of regret that the Caretaker never used this sample in his works and now that mistake is screaming in his face. However I'm unsure if the "Hell Sirens" sample has been used in his prior works.
The sirens are supposed to represent the ‘junkers Ju-87 Stuka’ the most feared aircraft of world war 2,they had sirens on the landing gear and when they flew fast,the sirens would activate
i always find discussion of these albums and the caretaker in general so interesting. the parallels obviously aren't 1:1 but as someone with dissociative identity disorder and schizophrenia (among other things) and as well as someone who has lost family members to dementia/may develop dementia if i live long enough i can't help but think of all the similarities between my own experiences and theirs. memory loss, distortion, confusion, disconnect from reality, flashbacks, disorganized thinking, etcetc are all normal parts of my everyday life, and i often have to rely on help from others. im also physically disabled with a suspected neurological illness which further compounds these feelings of comparison. my message to anyone who sees this and fears a similar reality: loss is not the end. even in fear and emptiness there is comfort to be found. please reach out to your loved ones, tell them you love them, and work to maintain the relationships you have with people you love. it may make all the difference for you
About the false memory syndrome. I know there is nothing to support this but I just like to imagine that we have lived previously lives that we can occasionally remember but not entirely. As if we know it happened but can't recall it
4:46 There could be another meaning to the 7'th stage like for an example you can see that if the person is on the 7'th stage you can't communicate so it's just silence and maybe the 7 album won't come out since the 7'th stage is about not knowing how to communicate, walk and etc. You completely forget everything in the 7'th stage and I think that's a very good way to end the album right there.
this video is so amazing oh my god,,, your voice is really calming and there are only two videos talking about a caretaker/eateot iceberg. you're literally so cool and I can tell that you put a ton of work into this
The last piece places me in the hospital, rather than rising into heaven. Perhaps both then-- but I just start bawling so hysterically because I hate, hate hate hate the stigma hospitals hold with me, with my own relatives.
Great video. I'm glad the iceberg format gets put to good use in videos like these, instead of being made into a joke like so many others. But more importantly, this is an interesting and entertaining look into Leyland Kirby's work. Amazing job... would you consider releasing the track list of the Caretaker songs used in this video?
It is weird af. This album disturbs me so deeply, yet Heartaches brings me so much joy as a song. It's like I'm imagining my husband and I were dancing in our New York flat in 1920. I'm a teenager, I'm gay, I'm single, and I'm from Canada.
Im the same person as you except slightly older and from England. I enjoy the romantic aspect of it, it's very alluring. It's enjoyable even when you know how it gets disturbing later on. I've ended up listening to a ton of the original samples just on their own and enjoying it and getting them on vinyl
It’s so strange because he did most of his songs in the UK, I’m also a teen but I’m from America. One song I listen to “Hang Out the Stars in Indiana” and since I am from there, the lyrics mention several things. The stars referring to our flag. Being blue with a torch and multiple stars
I love how samples are reused, in the fog you try to make out recognizable music in the noise. It’s realistic, trying to remember but the fog screws it over. I can’t explain it but I love it
It’s terminal lucidity, it’s the last snippet of dementia before you die - basically you are able to remember everything, but you’ll only live for about a few hours or a day which is really sad
4:46 it was because the first clinical stage actually does not have any symptoms, so the caretaker did not want to make a stage that is useless. all of the stages are actually one clinical stage ahead of what they are. like stage 1 is clinical stage 2, where symptoms start showing, and stage 5 is actually 6 and stage 6 is actually stage 7
It is beautifully done, and makes his point brilliantly. There’s an app that literally puts you in the place of someone with dementia. It was so so sad. I’ve watched people go through it. But had no idea just what happened and how they perceive the world. For me, I can relate somewhat. I have epilepsy and when I wake up from a seizure, I am confused, I don’t know time or place, and can’t remember anything I did or said afterwards for about 12 hours. I have tried to walk of a staircase because i didn’t know where I was upon waking. You can legit be in your own room, but since nothing registers , you can be looking at your favorite plushie and wouldn’t know what it was until you get some rest.
It frustrates me that we still don't know what song "Gradations of arms length" is sampled from and what the song title even means. It's an extremely beautiful sample, nonetheless. Once that's found, we'll know all the samples of Stage 3, too. I don't think we'll ever find out what song "Friends Past Reunited" actually is, since it's been said it's from a very obscure recording.
Oh wow, hey! Yeah, your video inspired me to make mine, and I aimed to only expand on what you said, not challenge it... hopefully that's what it came across as :)
It would be awesome if, on final stage and song, during we hear the "voices" it starts playing "it's just a burning memory" at final, but whit no corruptions
The air siren could also be those that were heard during The Blitz. An event The Caretaker was probably there to witness since The Caretaker is English. Interesting fact: Al Bowlly, the singer of Heartaches, died during The Blitz.
this video made me listen to the album, my grandmother suffers from dementia, and listening to this album had given me a whole new respect for what she has been going through. thank you for this video
A fun fact about the Hell Sirens is that the Caretaker sampled them from Leyland Kirby's BBC interview with Tom Ravenscroft in December of 2011. It was in a track called "Unreleased Memory" in his guest mix. My preferred interpretation is that the Hell Sirens represent sundown syndrome.
wow, this is a seriously wonderful video, nice, clear voice, i really enjoy the volume of the background music and the choice of music depending on the level of the 'berg, and the ambiance with the visual "noise" is wonderful, not to mention 1.) solid points and 2.) WALKING STAGE FOUR BOULDER LMAO please keep up the good work, man, i really enjoy your vids and i hope you continue to make more awesome vids like this (even if theres time in-between haha)
My personal take is that An Empty Bliss Beyond This World is Stage 2.5 of Everywhere At The End Of Time, so to speak- it slots in between the end of Stage 2 and the start of Stage 3. Stage 3 is where Empty Bliss samples begin appearing and when its track titles start to be referenced, and slotting it in between Stages 2 and 3 preserves that connection.
As for the seven stages of irl dementia, I personally think that the missing one is stage 4 of irl dementia which is a transition from stage 3 to stage 4 of eateot.
Sorry for the weird visual glitch at 0:11.... wasn't there when I began to export. Nonetheless, hope you enjoy!
Edit 2: Small correction, my fact about the albums being releases a year apart is wrong, they were releases 6 months apart i.e. 2 albums per year. Sorry for the mistake!
Edit: Since people keep asking for it, here's the link for the video of the caretaker singing heartaches: czcams.com/video/oNxfhnQpfsw/video.html
It made it scarier so I’m fine with it lol
@@jeeperscreepers69 It freaked me out the first time I checked the upload and got greeted with sudden silence
@@ookiiani lol
it honestly looks pretty cool!
It actually added to the ambiance of the video and I thought it went along well with the feeling of the album!
The reason there are 7 stages of dementia and 6 albums is because stage 1 of dementia is no signs of dementia, so essentially the original samples.
Brilliant video, by the way! This deserves so much more views, truly!
I thought it was more like Stage 0-6, with Stage 0 being any normal songs you listened to throughout your life before memory less set in
@@AM-id5ry Thats also perfectly valid.
I still think its 6 albums because dementia has yet to start in stage 1, and stage 2 is where it starts affecting your life in any way
I agree completely! Album one would simply be a collection of old songs that have remained untampered with. “it’s just a burning memory” would become “Heartaches” and so on. I believe the point of stage 1 is that we think these are the original memories, not realizing that the degradation of memory has already begun. We think it’s normal. I think that adds a ton to album 1
the fact that you turned stage 4 into a pair of legs is just fucked and I love it.
Haha I can't take credit for it, it appeared in the caretaker discord last year and I adored it and saved it. Makes for a good character for the video :)
@@ookiiani How do I join the caretaker discord?
purple trash lady and ciggie boulder fuse, AND THEY BECOME PURPLE TRASH BOULDER
I always saw the shoe/boot in the hair of Stage 4 Lady
@@billyjoel8771 I think you should contact Mr. Mister, who also makes Caretaker themed videos.
"Everywhere an empty bliss is not by The Caretaker, it's by Kirby" I forgot that James Kirby is a person and I thought you were about to prove that Kirby Nintendo, a barely sentient pink kickball, created one of the most profound commentaries on dementia in recent history
Yep that would be a whole different project.
Dosent help that in the lore, the barely sentient pink ball is a eldricht being that can transform into a acurrate biblic angel or a void, and the only reason he dosent transform in those thinks is because CAKE.
Sorry for bad english.
poyo!
WHY IS THIS SO FUNNY TO ME
Ok, but Kirby did tho
boulda smokin a ciggie and walkin mate
What's his name
@@humakhan80 _ham_
He walking to the chev 🔥
How to buy apple sauce at wall mart
@@gabobei1991
Step 1: Go to Walmart
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit
Caretaker made Stage 7 but forgot about it
yes
lol
nice
Its probably because stage 7 is so severe he just forgot music itself and probably caretaker is alive but his music is dead
The final memory that Alzheimer's patients have is of their music. At stage 7 the person is effectively gone and therefore there is no music, no life left in them. They are a husk of their former selves
ADDITION TO THE ICEBERG:
A youtuber named "jarballe" uploaded Stage 1 of EATEOT 4 years ago. It's nearly identical to the one vvmtest uploaded except for one thing:
B3 - Quiet Internal Rebellions, despite being from the same album, are 2 completely different songs.
In the final version the two songs:
B3 - Quiet Internal Rebellions and
E8 - Long Term Dusk Glimpses
are the exact same song.
This most likely explains why Leyland Kirby changed the song in the finished product; to serve as foreshadowing of The Caretaker's mental decline.
I didn't know that, that's quite cool.
i think bandcamp has the different version of b3 and the yt version is a mistake
It’s because quiet internal rebellions is copyrighted sorta
Yeah I always wondered why B3 and E8 were the same
Maybe jarballe is an alt of kirby ???
Anyone else notice how he broke this video into 6 pieces, each getting longer, just like Everywhere At the End of Time?
In a way it kinda is funny that that's how it really works, as because of the internet and such, the things about the first stages are more commonly known and are less in number, but more are really important in the later stages but people don't bother researching it or anything so they don't know as much as the later stages, thus making them longer and longer
Hey wait a minute...!...
HE DID!!! HOW DID I NOT NOTICE THAT UNTIL YOU MENTIONED IT?! NOW I CAN'T UNSEE IT! WOW!
@@spacekid9680 ok lol
Thats pretty cool tho
I mean that’s how the iceberg format usually goes, since the lower tiers require more explanations but yeah, funny how it all works out
dementia is the reason i’m scared to get old. theres nothing i can do besides just...sit and watch my memories fade away. nobody would be able to do anything, and if they tried helping i would forget them and their kindness.
Exactly, it's a very scary thing and I think this album does an incredible job at making you think about it. It's definitely changed how I look at some things
I would honestly just kill myself before it gets bad, unless they somehow find a cure.
I've thought about taking a lethal injection if I was ever diagnosed with it. Now, I wonder if it would be worth it to create a literary document from the perspective of a patient, if it came to that.
@@cdfactory Knock on wood til it breaks that that happens!
Its not hopeless! There are ways to mitigate the chance of dementia happening like exercise & stimulating your brain every day
Another thing, the (in)famous air raid siren that resembles the hell sirens was used during the blitz (bombing of London). Al bowlly was killed during the the blitz when a bomb sent the door to his flat into him.
Jeez, that gave me goosebumps. Horrifying...
The "Hell Sirens" are actually sampled from this czcams.com/video/Jf1L7rAG_Aw/video.html
This is just straight up false
@@fatfat7927 I’m interested, can I see a source?
@@alyssasalmon4883 Don't shift the burden of proof to him, the one who's making the claim is the original poster, so he is the one who has to prove it.
Imagine watching eateot when youre 90 years old... i cant imagine the feelings i would feel just listening to it
I showed the project to my grandma, she liked it. I only showed her the early stuff and none of the later stuff but she was interested in the concept and said it was a good idea
@@ookiianiI told my grandad about it. He said he recognised Al bowlly
Bruh, i just spent 30 minutes watching a talking piece of clay with legs and a cigarette talk about music.
If you described this to someone 20 years ago, they'd think you're insane.
Also, you could've given this iceberg six stages. That was a missed opportunity, lol.
It is a M A T C H I N IT
This community is so heartwarming and bittersweet because of the subject. My brother and I bonded a lot through the caretaker and coming to terms with learning about what our loved ones have struggled so much with
That sounds very meaningful, I'm glad you've had that experience.
@@ookiiani I am too. Thank you!
It was until the FNF fans came along 😔 now they're romanticizing dementia
@@apebrainalexmain8731 Huh- we're doing what now?!
@@apebrainalexmain8731 wait what???
As a child my greatest fear was weird shadows in my room at night that was just my stuff laying around everywhere. As an adult, my greatest fear is that I’ll end up with Alzheimer’s/dementia when I’m old.
Your greatest fear as an adult is to not remember your greatest fear as a child
If I’m ever diagnosed with dementia I’m immediately taking myself out, I’m not going out like that I’m going on my own terms
Idk I feel like by the time I’m at risk there will be a cure
I always thought that The Caretaker was (as the name suggests) a caretaker for old people and each album represented a different patient they was taking care of that was suffering from an issue different than the last, as to say, each person had their own stories of life that they would tell to The Caretaker himself. Those stories were what were in the albums. The _Everywhere at the End of Time_ is the longest because that was the person he attended the most and the one with dementia that was just eating off their brain.
I never thought as The Caretaker as an "album collective entity". To me, they seemed more like a person, a character, that was just doing their job. Though the idea of making The Caretaker a thing which had all these albums correlated to it, making them being an auditory representation of its experiences and able to develop mental issues like a real person, an interesting concept just as much as my prior theory.
I like this sort of role play. I wish more artists dabbled in more experimental projects like these. We would have a room filled with projects different and more unique than the last to talk about.
Isn't the name 'The Caretaker" inspired from The Shining? In the movie Jack Torrence becomes The Caretaker for the unbearably eerie Overlook hotel as in the painting portrait in the end. In the sequel, Doctor Sleep, his son (Danny) comes to visit him in the same hotel, were he refuses that he was ever his dad, insisting that he was always the Caretaker. Also, at the end of The Shining were the portrait in the hotel displays Jack as the caretaker, Al Bowlly's Midnight the Stars and You is played which i believe Kirby has also sampled????
Someone must know more about this, but this project was heavily drawn on by The Shining, a film which pretty much made the atmosphere of empty ballrooms, which makes the Overlook Hotel the greatest liminal space of all time.
This video is severely underrated
Don’t worry, the second it hits the recommended, it will skyrocket. Mark my words
@@MAXTHEKlD well guess what, I found this video because it got recommended to me.
I am going to watch the video but first I want to listen to Everywhere at the End of Time all the way through without stopping -- but don't worry, this video is in my watch later list ^^
There exists even creepier album of the Caretaker: Theoretically pure anterograde amnesia. Or more peaceful ambients too. Somehow people know only EATEOT
AEBBTW is still my favourite caretaker album, got to say
Persistent Repetition of Phrases is my personal favorite.
yeah anterograde amnesia is just microwave sounds for a while, it has no feel to it.
@@ookiiani yes. yês. Yeß. YĒß. YËẞ!. 6Êẞ¡
I love tonight, everything seems blue and dark
Your voice is calming, making 30 minutes feel like 5. I really hope you'll get the fame you deserve
Thank you so much!
The hell sirens originally had the meaning of the caretaker himself graining the horrific thought he denied for years in his rotting brain. The thought of "Oh dear God, I am really going to forget everything, and there is nothing I can do about it." A losing battle is raging hints to this as you can hear it faintly with heartaches before it starts. Basically this is the war in the mind finally being lost, only for death to then after slowly choke it out. However, the war theories can not be denied. There are many different colors and angles of trauma and a lot of other people can hear this as a sign of war which gives off a more eerie effect, especially considering this. Imagine you visiting the caretaker. You hear this sample and think jeez, post traumatic memory, when in reality the caretaker really fears forgetting it all, and it is much more horrifying then any trauma he must have experienced.
Hm...
The true moment of clarity?
Not the last memories that were barely here but almost clear...
But a horrible realization, taken almost out of context, caused by a fleeting memory...
And soon to be forgotten.
Heartaches is not heard before that song
@@RiceWitch-dingus-400 I know that now thanks to Context Switch. Sorries...
@@djmaple5940 all good
19:45 it sounds more like something known as a ‘Jericho Siren’, which were sirens attached to the underside of Germany’s dive bomber JU-87 “Stukas” during the Second World War, their purpose being to psychologically terrify the enemy when the bomber in question is diving towards the enemy. If true, then they certainly did an awfully great job.
If I'm correct, the Jericho Trumpets were just a noise caused from the Junker diving, but I might be wrong. Also, ironically, a large amount of Luftwaffe pilots removed the Trumpets because it was "very annoying".
@@GRAHAMICVS And the Luftwaffe names ties to those mines that inadvertently resulted in Al Bowlly's death during a German air raid during World War II.
I'd like to think that the missing 7th stage is just whatever you were listening to before as a perfectly normal stage which becomes before stage 1 in eateot
Me who was just listening to meduza’s piece of your heart: o h n o
Me who has friday night funkin gunfight stuck in my head: uhhhh ya *wat mate*
I've come up with a theory about EATEOT
Since the final 5 minutes uses the song "Friends Past Reunited". I believe it actually represents Terminal Lucidity, not death or going to heaven. Because now the caretaker remembers everything, their favorite places to go, where they've been, and their family and friends. Which is why the sample that was used was Friends Past Reunited.
Hopefully I did a good job explaining my theory, thanks for reading
And Friends Past Reunited is sampled off Johann Sebastian Bach's BWV 246 Anh. II 30, Pt. 2
I literally just listened to a boulder with drip talk about music. It was worth it.
The exaggerated swagger of a boulder with a match in it
Everywhere at the end of time? Why don't you get yourself everywhere between some bitches?
@@trsamisari **it's just a burning memory epic remix plays**
One thing I wanna say is that the "Albums 1-6 actually represent stages 2-7 of dementia" is actually factually true, because dementia only starts effecting you in the second stage. Technically we all have stage 1 dementia, so the previous album being stage one is correct because it wasn't about dementia, so that means it could only be about stage 1.
It also lines up with the shift between volume 3 and 4, because stage 5 is considered the "tipping point" for most people when dementia really gets serious.
i hate the fact that we all have stage 1 dementia
Wow uh, the viewcount is so low for such a great video. Clear speaking voice, balanced audio between the background and your voice, clear mic, visuals to keep engaged. This is really, really good. It doesn't feel right for this to have under 1K views. Subbed, definitely.
Thanks man! I'll be honest, I've neglected this channel and not uploaded a lot since I do music and am more active on bandcamp and twitter but, I'm excited to do more videos like these
@@ookiiani i have question, are 100% sure you wont get dementia?
@@hellonokay1925 ...
Fun fact: definition-wise...
_You're in stage 1._
You're trying to make people experience a downward spiral aren't you?
@@ArnisGoldberg i dont know what youre getting at but maybe
@@maximum_axiom I meant that you're trying to make people depressed by telling them they're in stage one of dementia.
@@ArnisGoldberg buddy.... It was a joke....
@@maximum_axiom i know right, he’s jumping to conclusions
I feel like EATEOT somewhat ruined my life. After I've heard the album for the first time, I couldn't stop myself from feeling a constant fear of losing my memories. I think, it would have been much better, if I never ever listened to EATEOT.
Honestly, dementia or not you're gonna forget a ton of things in your lifetime, just enjoy things along the way brother, don't fret over tomorrow.
@@badman843
Thank you, bud. Things have changed for a bit, since I wrote the comment. I've got lots of support from my siblings and friends and now I'm trying to negate the chances of getting dementia that early via physical and mental exercises, reading all books and just enjoy every moment of the life with people I know and love. Once again, thank you for the reply, man!
wagmi
@@DontStopMeGaLo I'm pretty sure either way dementia is very rare to get, unless your family has a history with it.
@@DontStopMeGaLo One thing that helps is recalling events that happened during the day in the evening. Good luck and peace to you.
The quality is amazing man, you've both helped the EATEOT community and delivered great content, thanks so much for the video!
🙏 Thank you friend
all the artist who preformed heartaches I know of
Al bowlly [Sampled]
Seger Ellis [Sampled]
Ted Weems
Patsy Cline
The Marcel's
Bert Lowns
Guy Lombardo [Sampled]
Try Harry James and his Orchestra. Fantastic big band cover with Marion Morgan on vocals
@Liam DurrI listened to it again and now I hear it
tbh I’m only two minutes in and you sound like you’d be a good, well-mannered podcaster, I hope I can finish this but I’m sorta floating around on YT rn so I’m not being the most chaste with my attention span, but you seem like an interesting homie
Thanks friend, I've finally got a setup decent enough to do more videos like these so I'll probably begin doing some more soon!
hype.
I think this is the only "Iceberg" video I've actually clicked on, and gotta say, loving it so far.
Edit: Also, album 6 is actually album 7, the first album is just whatever "normal" music you listen to because stage 1 of Alzheimer's is "no dementia".
Imagine going from Metallica to Stage 1.
@@Delta225 or video game music
@@Happy_spider_boi I guess if you listen to Bioshock music there wouldn't be that much mood whiplash.
@@Delta225 Imagine listening to Dyers Eve and then you start listening a distorted version of Heartaches.
@@Delta225 Check Nowhere at the Millennium of Space: Redux if you haven't already :D
Call me a dementia patient because I’ve forgotten how to not be sad after listening to the caretaker’s music
How 2 not be sad:
Step 1: Watch kitten videos
Step 2: ???
Step 3: profit
@@rayherostudios8135 worked
Noice!
Just forget how to forget easy
every song from the first 3 albums (stage 1-3) gets stuck in my head
Heartaches is an example of first in last out. Your memory degenerates in reverse. Its probably symbolic of a song or memory that's burned itself early on and was fighting to stay
this video is criminally underrated
Indeed
Correct
If more iceberg videos were made like this, I’d think I’d like them more.
Same
My theory of the " 7 stages, 6 albums" thing is that the Caretaker died before reaching the 7ths stage and perhaps in a nursing house.
well, according to the chart, stage 1 is no dementia, so i guess it's just 1 more than whatever stage
@@helix2331 stage 1 is dementia but its not as powerful for anyone to feel it, no dementia is stage 0
@@v1be2007 exactly
19:26 Watch me perform the fastest NOPE in the west. Also just out of curiosity I played that part at the lowest volume and can still here it, god the hell sirens are truly the end all be all representation of hell.
Fantastic video! But the reason there is no real stage 7 is because in real life stage 1 is no decline and so the music would be normal
or there is a stage 7 but he forgot to publish it, and deleted it not knowing what it even is
7:13 can confirm, this is the setup of figure/still life drawing. The wood panel is set up on an easel and this blue paper tape is what holds your paper on the canvas. What’s interesting is that these wooden panels are usually covered in paint and other art mediums and you have these multiple outlines of all the different canvases used over the years. But here there’s nothing.
The presentation, humor and video length make me so happy
4:57, stage 1 isnt rlly a stage of dementia though? it's just your brain working as it's supposed to lol
Or, alternatively: we all have dementia
@@CaribouGutSludge truee true
As per the actual description, stage one is just overlooking the good memories so they last longer- of course it sounds good
Except it’s not tho
Stage 1 is dementia however its near impossible to notice it. And not many memories are lost
Nice video dude. Personally the most scary thing about the Hell Sirens is the relapse to the storm like sounds after. You’d feel like after such a horrid moment you’d get a break, but no you go right into the storm.
I also find the war theory quitte gimmicky and therefor don’t really hope its true.
yeah I think it's sundowning
With Kirby putting so much passion into the project, it seems only fair that he gets this amount of passion back.
So when it comes to an alternative ending, this is what I could find:
czcams.com/video/sOwwI6wDzrU/video.html
In some way I prefer this ending. Not because it's happier but because it feels like something the caretaker would recognize as one of his own creations. Not the sound of angelic singing, but this instrumental. To me it represents terminal lucidity even better. This music is actually coherent, it feels familiar. However, even though memory is sort of back, it is only back for so long. The caretaker is clutches onto life with a weak grasp. As the music goes on it becomes more and more clear that the end is near. Everything the caretaker had worked on, everything that brought meaning to his life is at a close. Until silence.
i imagine album 7 is missing because anyone who has reached stage 7 dementia probably doesnt have much of a mind left at all... and likewise to other people they will appear like an empty husk... a body whose inhabitant has long been lost. So if the 7th album was released on vinyl it would be like a sleave with no record in it.
Thank you for an awesome video! It deserves a lot of views. But i wish you'd talk a little more about other albums, and not just spin around EATEOT, like a lot of people do. I always see everyone care only about EATEOT, and not pay attention to his other works. Still a great video.
(I recognized the abomination in the middle of the screen, it was made by my good friend from caretaker discord lol)
(Also, recognized Mr Mister's sample log)
Yes, I agree that I've focused on EATEOT a lot more, and I do intend on doing a longer video about the entire discography someday, not as an iceberg vid but just as a video essay instead. Glad you enjoyed the vid :)
And I love the abomination! I remember when I was part of the discord before uni got too busy, it was a great time. I'm glad people liked seeing my Caretaker collection, plus it was always exciting when new samples were found.
As a sidenote my personal theory is that terminal lucidity is caused the same way deathbed out of body experiances are or someone life flashes between someone's eyes is because it's the brains last ditch all in effort to try to survive, in people with undamaged brains this manifest as something akin to hyperawareness and insanely active brain activity while in those with heavily damaged brains this manifest as normal levels of brain function to before they sustained severe brain damage
They believe it may be, like near death experiences, a mass release of neurotransmitters, possibly in a final attempt to stay alive (akin to theories about near death experiences and stress hormones). It’s paradoxical, much like how some animals wake up faster from MORE potent tranquilizers (it might have to do with the severity of the stress), but something that might help treat these disorders in the future.
My evidence for this theory is that 4,000 genes pertaining to rapid growth and regeneration are activated after death in an attempt to revive the dead body (of course it fails because metabolic processes have stopped). The only difference between this and actually reverting to an embryonic state is that a specific species of jellyfish activates (likely similar) genes and reverts back to an embryonic state, rendering it immortal (which makes me wonder if those activations could revert stem cells into pluripotent stem cells. Maybe it takes making the body think it’s dead or almost dead to regenerate limbs).
I think the song sample for “It’s Just a Burning Memory” was supposed to represent a very crucial and active memory that the Caretaker had in their every day life hence why it was used so many times, maybe something like a significant other given how the track has hints almost a romantic setting in a ballroom, it could’ve even been a wedding song/crucial piece of music that they associate to a significant other in that same sense (the abrupt ending of the track’s echo symbolizing the last time they’d ever remember them clearly without distortion, or alluding to the end of those glory days); then as the stages go on, it’s added to every stage to show how such a fond memory that was once very clear and present in their life became mangled and hard to conceptualize as their condition worsened, but still remained despite deteriorating because of how impactful the memory was. The title itself “it’s just a burning memory” almost being a way of describing this very near and dear person/important memory as nothing more than that, “a burning memory” after being diagnosed with dementia, no matter how crucial of a part this memory played in their life before they were aware of their illness.
I agree, the constant usage of that sample as well as the sample used in Libet's Delay (goodnight my beautiful) is either because it's just Kirby's favourite set of samples, or because of canon reasons like you mention.
I’d like to imagine stage 6 art work is just a random memory of some home remodeling from younger teenage years, or home construction. Of all the precious memories they had this is the only one left they can recall. I bland pointless moment of a something that had no meaning or reason to it, no joy or love or peace. And that’s all the person can remember in the end.
I actually really like this idea.
It is probably terminal lucidity(brain of the patient fires all of the remaining neurons for a unknown reason and the patient remembers some of his memories. However, the patient usually dies days later the terminal lucidity happens due to the brain damading itself by firing all of the remaining neurons
Holy shit thank you so much for talking about that exhibition in France, as soon as it said they were back in stock I bought a copy. Can't wait to hear it once it crosses the Atlantic.
The book is a really great read too!
@@ookiiani It just showed up and I looked through the entire exhibition in less than a day. I loved the entire thing, showed so much about Kirby and Seal's respective artistic processes. Thank you so much for mentioning it.
fantastic video!! thank you so much for taking the time to make this - I so appreciated listening to someone who really appreciates Kirby's work.
Personally, I've not had too much issue with the memes - I find them really entertaining. I think I've had more issue with just edgelords refusing to be respectful about the subject matter. However, I think it likely comes from a place of fear though on their own end, so I've been letting it slide. :)
Can't wait to see more from you in the future!
I'm fine with the memes too, I included some in here completely just because I liked them and found them funny
I'm with you though; the one that boiled my blood a bit was people purposefully telling others to not listen to the album because it was "purposefully designed to scare you and make you freak out" which is just a complete bastardisation of the subject matter. If you have trouble listening the album, don't listen to it. Don't then go and tell others to not listen to it and lie about what it's about just to turn it into a boogeyman for others to get scared of and miss the point entirely....
Thank you for the kind words though!
@@ookiiani yeah, that bothered the hell out of me. They definitely were missing the mark! I think its fine to be scared of course but for me, it really helped remind me of how even at the worst moments of my grandmother's dementia, there were still a ton of beautiful moments and memories to be made. I'm glad the people that were treating EATEOT as a creepypasta seem to have sort of backed off recently.
I'm a spectator of The Caretaker server, and I have to say you made this video great! Keep up the good stuff! I also have to say that a lot of the things in this are quite accurate too.
I recognize you!
@@sashathedonut I bet you do
Someone actually made a EATEOT stage 7 which is hell. It’s very well made
There is also another version of the same creator which is heaven
And purgatory!
Don't Forget Stars And Void
I think the last 6 minutes are intentionally open to interpretation because of the different worldviews of us listeners. Many of us don't believe in afterlife and many people near death still experience hallucinations, some just happen to be euphoric. I think the last quiet minute marks the Caretaker having just died and also a minute of silence for the deceased.
I think that the last image of EATEOT, is a building but one door is the only thing that is "not break" of this building, but she about to fall
(sorry for bad english)
at about 3 i woke up because of a storm, and I couldn't fall back asleep so I grabbed some hot chocolate and listened to the caretaker while listening to the rain and feeling the cold air . I specifically listened to 'a Stairway to the Stars'. That may have been my first caretaker album a few years back, I honestly don't remember (how ironic)
The fact that the final sample is Friends Past Reunited from The Caretaker's first album really drives home the narrative of him going through Terminal Lucidity as not only is it his final coherent memory, but it's a memory from so long ago.
“CONSIDER YOURSELF DEMENTIA RIDDEN” I CANT
5:02 its actually because the first stage of dementia was too normal, it would basically just be normal music, therefore stage 1 of eateot represents stage 2 in the actually dementia buildup, stage 6 IS stage 7.
I kinda thought that the "Hell Sirens" were maybe a memory or feeling of regret that the Caretaker never used this sample in his works and now that mistake is screaming in his face.
However I'm unsure if the "Hell Sirens" sample has been used in his prior works.
The sirens are supposed to represent the ‘junkers Ju-87 Stuka’ the most feared aircraft of world war 2,they had sirens on the landing gear and when they flew fast,the sirens would activate
@@jamesaviation2240 That's a neat fact to know. Thank you.
"It's Just A Burning Memory" is the literal best of the songs, and that's saying something given it's the first song we would be listening to
I disagree, A2.
i always find discussion of these albums and the caretaker in general so interesting. the parallels obviously aren't 1:1 but as someone with dissociative identity disorder and schizophrenia (among other things) and as well as someone who has lost family members to dementia/may develop dementia if i live long enough i can't help but think of all the similarities between my own experiences and theirs. memory loss, distortion, confusion, disconnect from reality, flashbacks, disorganized thinking, etcetc are all normal parts of my everyday life, and i often have to rely on help from others. im also physically disabled with a suspected neurological illness which further compounds these feelings of comparison. my message to anyone who sees this and fears a similar reality: loss is not the end. even in fear and emptiness there is comfort to be found. please reach out to your loved ones, tell them you love them, and work to maintain the relationships you have with people you love. it may make all the difference for you
are you perhaps any better now?
About the false memory syndrome. I know there is nothing to support this but I just like to imagine that we have lived previously lives that we can occasionally remember but not entirely. As if we know it happened but can't recall it
I love the artwork Ivan Seal has done with Leyland, I wonder what the future holds for these two!
4:46 There could be another meaning to the 7'th stage like for an example you can see that if the person is on the 7'th stage you can't communicate so it's just silence and maybe the 7 album won't come out since the 7'th stage is about not knowing how to communicate, walk and etc. You completely forget everything in the 7'th stage and I think that's a very good way to end the album right there.
this video is so amazing oh my god,,, your voice is really calming and there are only two videos talking about a caretaker/eateot iceberg. you're literally so cool and I can tell that you put a ton of work into this
Boulder smokin a ciggy got some fresh new drip. 💧👌
*_औकनबह_* drip
Mogus drip!?11!!!!!!11!1
The last piece places me in the hospital, rather than rising into heaven. Perhaps both then-- but I just start bawling so hysterically because I hate, hate hate hate the stigma hospitals hold with me, with my own relatives.
Great video. I'm glad the iceberg format gets put to good use in videos like these, instead of being made into a joke like so many others. But more importantly, this is an interesting and entertaining look into Leyland Kirby's work. Amazing job... would you consider releasing the track list of the Caretaker songs used in this video?
Just updated the description with all the songs used in order, with some YT links to all of them. Enjoy!
@@ookiiani wow, that was quick! thank you so much!
when an album is so good you need a spoiler alert
It is weird af. This album disturbs me so deeply, yet Heartaches brings me so much joy as a song. It's like I'm imagining my husband and I were dancing in our New York flat in 1920.
I'm a teenager, I'm gay, I'm single, and I'm from Canada.
Im the same person as you except slightly older and from England. I enjoy the romantic aspect of it, it's very alluring. It's enjoyable even when you know how it gets disturbing later on. I've ended up listening to a ton of the original samples just on their own and enjoying it and getting them on vinyl
heartaches is such a jammer, its stuck in my head.
Heartaches surely slaps
It’s so strange because he did most of his songs in the UK, I’m also a teen but I’m from America. One song I listen to “Hang Out the Stars in Indiana” and since I am from there, the lyrics mention several things. The stars referring to our flag. Being blue with a torch and multiple stars
I love how samples are reused, in the fog you try to make out recognizable music in the noise. It’s realistic, trying to remember but the fog screws it over. I can’t explain it but I love it
Thank you all for 20 thousand views on this... Never would have dreamed of getting to this! Can't wait to do more :)
And now 30 thousand.... When uni clears up, expect more content!
@Andrey Jethro Wattimena 4 months ago
@Andrey Jethro Wattimena I have returned from 8 hours ago
Wow, a very good iceberg vid man
The one sample I want to find is for “And Bliss, Everywhere Bliss”
Here you go: czcams.com/video/uIeoAzVUEJw/video.html
It's called Solitude of the Shepherdess
@@ookiiani Yo thank you man! I don’t know how the caretaker does it, but he can make the happiest songs feel almost like a tragedy.
Thanks again!
This music keeps me the fuck up at night. SO WHY DO I KEEP COMING BACK TO IT???
I work on a night with it on, it's relaxing
I have a theory
There are 6 minutes of angelic music
And six stages
Maybe the stages are everything coming back right before you die
Terminal lucidity
It’s terminal lucidity, it’s the last snippet of dementia before you die - basically you are able to remember everything, but you’ll only live for about a few hours or a day which is really sad
Thats TERMINAL LUCIDITY
4:46 it was because the first clinical stage actually does not have any symptoms, so the caretaker did not want to make a stage that is useless. all of the stages are actually one clinical stage ahead of what they are. like stage 1 is clinical stage 2, where symptoms start showing, and stage 5 is actually 6 and stage 6 is actually stage 7
Love the video man, you've got such a passion and self assurance in you that's very rare in smaller channels just starting out.
Thank you friend
It is beautifully done, and makes his point brilliantly. There’s an app that literally puts you in the place of someone with dementia. It was so so sad. I’ve watched people go through it. But had no idea just what happened and how they perceive the world.
For me, I can relate somewhat. I have epilepsy and when I wake up from a seizure, I am confused, I don’t know time or place, and can’t remember anything I did or said afterwards for about 12 hours. I have tried to walk of a staircase because i didn’t know where I was upon waking. You can legit be in your own room, but since nothing registers , you can be looking at your favorite plushie and wouldn’t know what it was until you get some rest.
what's the app called bro?
It frustrates me that we still don't know what song "Gradations of arms length" is sampled from and what the song title even means. It's an extremely beautiful sample, nonetheless. Once that's found, we'll know all the samples of Stage 3, too. I don't think we'll ever find out what song "Friends Past Reunited" actually is, since it's been said it's from a very obscure recording.
On the last tier:
*everywhere at the end of funk community*
Basically horrifying community who fetishizes dementia
Ikr, It's awful 😣
Wait what? I just saw the mod because I liked fnf. It just seemed like any EATEOT meme? Is there a community behind it that fetishizes dementia?!
@@goodluckgorsky3413 yes
@@goodluckgorsky3413 Unfortunately, yes 😔
@@goodluckgorsky3413 Technically no, they are a part of the fandom
Thanks for the mention. I agree that the iceberg I used does get pretty batshit and unprovable near the bottom lol. This is a great video!
Oh wow, hey! Yeah, your video inspired me to make mine, and I aimed to only expand on what you said, not challenge it... hopefully that's what it came across as :)
@@ookiiani Oh, of course! I appreciate the feedback.
The other icebergs videos were missing so much stuff but you were able to cover a lot, great video!
It would be awesome if, on final stage and song, during we hear the "voices" it starts playing "it's just a burning memory" at final, but whit no corruptions
The air siren could also be those that were heard during The Blitz. An event The Caretaker was probably there to witness since The Caretaker is English. Interesting fact: Al Bowlly, the singer of Heartaches, died during The Blitz.
All these Caretaker youtubers are SOO UNDERATED ITS MENTAL
this video made me listen to the album, my grandmother suffers from dementia, and listening to this album had given me a whole new respect for what she has been going through. thank you for this video
speechless. it's my favorite piece of his, this video is so beautifully executed. Well done
I looked at the view count expecting a few hundred thousand views, but seeing 2k surprised me! This is highly underrated!
🙏 Thanks friend
If, going on, you do videos on things you find interesting, hey, I'm coming along to listen. Good job, mate, love the video!
A fun fact about the Hell Sirens is that the Caretaker sampled them from Leyland Kirby's BBC interview with Tom Ravenscroft in December of 2011. It was in a track called "Unreleased Memory" in his guest mix. My preferred interpretation is that the Hell Sirens represent sundown syndrome.
wow, this is a seriously wonderful video, nice, clear voice, i really enjoy the volume of the background music and the choice of music depending on the level of the 'berg, and the ambiance with the visual "noise" is wonderful, not to mention 1.) solid points and 2.) WALKING STAGE FOUR BOULDER LMAO
please keep up the good work, man, i really enjoy your vids and i hope you continue to make more awesome vids like this (even if theres time in-between haha)
My personal take is that An Empty Bliss Beyond This World is Stage 2.5 of Everywhere At The End Of Time, so to speak- it slots in between the end of Stage 2 and the start of Stage 3. Stage 3 is where Empty Bliss samples begin appearing and when its track titles start to be referenced, and slotting it in between Stages 2 and 3 preserves that connection.
how tf does this have so few views
Been meaning to put out a caretaker related video for ages. You could say I've been practicing hah
@@ookiiani maybe you forgot to post it, perhaps it was just a burning memory, but you lost it
Yeah... How
@@BigWilly332 this is a joke
people with dementia forgot that they watched this video
commenting so it will show up in other feeds! absolutely brilliant.
As for the seven stages of irl dementia, I personally think that the missing one is stage 4 of irl dementia which is a transition from stage 3 to stage 4 of eateot.
i adore the caretaker and have been obsessed with his music for a good while now, and you’ve even managed to show me some new ideas, great video :)
Thank you for this video, it taught me a lot of things that I didn’t know about The Caretakers music since I’m still kind of new to it
It's a rabbit hole indeed, hope you enjoy your stay in this community!
This is a pretty good video man, hoping to see more 👍