'The Caretaker' Iceberg, Explained

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: https://youtu.be/oNxfhnQpfsw

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.

the fact that you turned stage 4 into a pair of legs is just fucked and I love it.

"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

Caretaker made Stage 7 but forgot about it

boulda smokin a ciggie and walkin mate

Anyone else notice how he broke this video into 6 pieces, each getting longer, just like Everywhere At the End of Time?

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.

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.

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.

Imagine watching eateot when youre 90 years old... i cant imagine the feelings i would feel just listening to it

Fun fact: definition-wise... You're in stage 1.

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.

This video is severely underrated

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.

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.

There exists even creepier album of the Caretaker: Theoretically pure anterograde amnesia. Or more peaceful ambients too. Somehow people know only EATEOT

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

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.

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.