Al Bowlly: Heartaches

Al Bowlly sings "Heartaches" with Sid Phillips & His Melodians. This is for the Decca label.

[@toyota_avanza]

Everybody gangsta until.... Everybody gangsta until.. until uhh i forgot

[@Daddy-ue1du]

Until the Lorax floats away. (I was bored)

[@Joe-Nathan]

Until the... the, uhhhhhhh..... everybody gangster until the......hmmm....

[@susangardini8161]

OH FUCK

[@saucer1452]

Safety in Pills, Sophie.

[@elifnunalll]

until the.. the the you know the..

[@skeletonghoulman8442]

When it's not related to dementia, the song kinda fucking slaps tbh

[@rocketjumper1380]

facts

[@flohwalzer]

ikr 😳😳

[@taffyadam6031]

listen to some fuckin russ morgan then

[@Disco_Rider]

@@taffyadam6031 listen to some fuckin al hirt than

[@phildiop8248]

@@manicdosed i'd say more like 20s to 40s. after the 50s, music is different then the 20s by a lot.

[@saladfingersasmrparty9768]

“I can’t believe it’s just a burning memory” HE SAID THE THING

[@Foxfire_whoa]

When he said that I got the same feeling I get when a character in a book says the name of the book lol

[@Iamnottheplatypus]

Say the line bart!

[@kotus_malinus]

​@@Foxfire_whoawhy youre saying lol?😢

[@vvvxt]

Yeah....he did...WAY before it was even a meme

[@Greed...]

​@JuliaAnimacoeswhy " "---" "?

[@lienguru9934]

Leaving this comment here so when someone likes it I will be reminded of this masterpiece this song is legendary

[@An_Menace]

yo listen to this fire again!

[@VeryRareEgg]

AGAIN

[@BURNTMILLROAD]

Straight banger

[@androidvibes1904]

Again!

[@Subz-jp7hx]

agaeine

[@Goresaka]

Al Bowlly saying "i can't believe it's just a burning memory" is like the protagonist of a movie saying the title of the movie.

[@chemicalfuzzy]

Aaaaaaaaaand roll credits

[@Canadian_Ice]

its so overdone but its still amazing imo

[@coffeeiguess]

He said the line, we can go now guys.

[@leo_the_be0]

Finally, someone who understands

[@rhubarbdude3347]

"So that's it? I'm some kind of... burning memory?"

[@hiphyro]

Imagine like 50 years from now someone makes an Everywhere at the End of Time for our generation and the first song is a haunting version of hamster dance or smthn

[@helix2331]

it's gonna be minecraft or smth probably

[@ghoulbuster1]

Someone already did minecraft a version.

[@morderig0528]

@@ghoulbuster1 what its called?

[@soniceverhate9179]

i would laugh. music doesn't have any charm now

[@electthelambda]

I remember this one song from my lit years... WOP? WAP? Wet ass .... party? 👴

[@Lil_Chimp1n]

"Your kiss was such a sacred thing to me, I can't believe it's just a burning memory."

[@Lil_Chimp1n]

Real

[@noshame5791]

real

[@averagegegegegegegege]

Rea

[@Tractor5015]

Re

[@Heavy57]

.

[@spongewaffle]

WE TEARING UP THE BALLROOM WITH THIS ONE GENTLEMEN 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶

[@ratralfiofanov8386]

💯💯💯💯💯💯💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@alphaligo9020]

🔥🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 💀 💀 💀 💀 💀 💀 🔊 🔊 🔊 🔊 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@THE_ROOK7789]

INDEED MY GOOD FELLOW🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@infinityyworks]

🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@phoenixwarden8647]

HATH THY ALL LISTENED TO THIS DELIGHT?? 🗣 🗣 TRULY PREFERABLE OVER A CRISPY 🔥 🔥

[@MrStarman926]

Sad fact: The singer in this was killed in by a Luftwaffe parachute mine dropped outside his home by Nazi Germany in 1941. It's a cruel world we live in.

[@rattaratsoana688]

Fucking nazis

[@claytons4789]

@@rattaratsoana688 the war killed a lot of innocent people, on both sides.

[@rattaratsoana688]

@@claytons4789 i know that it's just that humans man humans have no chill

[@yusufpassarela7105]

that must suck dude, imagine some random mine just falls and explode then you died

[@joemama-ej7kw]

At least he didn’t get dementia

[@chthonicchive8753]

This feels like nightcore after listening to the caretaker version

[@sometree2744]

there's actually a "nightcore version" of EATEOT! don't listen to it.

[@moss5356]

@@sometree2744 ok I won’t XD

[@richardgibson8403]

some tree DIMENTA SPEEDRUN

[@DraconasTenZHG]

@@sometree2744 This sounds like the most cursed thing I have ever heard

[@uhhdudethatwouldbesalt672]

@@sometree2744 That sounds impossibly cursed

[@drakondra]

0% dementia 0% backrooms 0% creepiness 100% calm

[@user-fo2kl7zk1x]

Yeah, It has sadness though.. I mean if you hear the lyrics

[@medic_gamnig_savetf2]

0% the walten files

[@codenayr7894]

Hits different when you realize watching this is just a burning memory.

[@kittenplush]

Imagine if you’re someone who knows this song because you like it and you scroll down to the comments and are so confused by this caretaker/ memory loss stuff lmao

[@saturnian1]

I don't have to imagine, I really am confused.

[@AbhNormal]

@@saturnian1 So basically this English musician going by the name of The Caretaker has created a 6 and a half hour long project titled "Everywhere at the End of Time". wherein he took a barrage of old 30s and 40s ballroom records and warped and distorted them beyond recognition to musically portray memory loss and dementia. The first of the fifty(!) tracks is called "It's Just a Burning Memory" and is a loop of the first 40 seconds of this song slowed down considerably, so hearing the original, unaltered version is, to those who have listened to that project, uncanny, as it seems to portray a mind without dementia and terrible memory loss.

[@samgangi5990]

Heard this year's before either came out, I found the dementia album on some clickbait my girl clicked on and it made me remember this tune and how great it is.

[@chueko1389]

thats very convenient

[@skrubbed]

im that person, wtf is going on

[@someth1ngstupid]

Ignore dementia, this slaps

[@spacekid9680]

Pun/joke intended?

[@DanProducesVids]

*undoes dementia*

[@therealwisemysticaltree]

Forget the.. what?, oh dementia, wait, I REMEMBER

[@yoyleb1711]

man forgets he ever had dementia, remembers everything

[@vincentrodriguez5512]

no cap

[@jasu5650]

The last song that this lovely man made was "It's a lovely day tomorrow" It gives me the chills because it was released in 1940, a year before his sad death. RIP, Al Bowlly.

[@pogcompagni]

Not true, his last song was "When that man is dead and gone " witch is a satire song about Hitler and what will happen when he finally dies. Sadly Al never got to see Hitler dead

[@jasu5650]

i havent seen it on the wikipedia page about him. Sorry for misinfo@@pogcompagni

[@pogcompagni]

@@jasu5650 No problem. I didnt know it either until a month ago

[@ThySir]

Al Bowlly died in 1943

[@Dissonancemusicoffical]

​@@ThySirнет, 16 или 17 апреля 1941

[@enzzogabrielc.tavares8255]

I was born in 00s, but every time a hear any 30s/40s songs, i get goosebumps. A nostalgic and sad feeling emerge, as when a elderly remembers of the "good ol' days" but in a snap return to present, knowing that those moments will never come back.

[@Strange_Traveller]

Tom&jerry was one of my favourites. Heck I watched the old ones in vhs tapes in 2010. Now all of them are gone since a fucking crazy guy burned them all :(.

[@AHHHHHHHH21]

Damn 1900s?

[@thatoneweirdphoenix709]

@@Strange_TravellerTom and Jerry was pretty pog ngl

[@Tn-qr1kb]

@@AHHHHHHHH21think they mean 2000’s

[@AHHHHHHHH21]

@@Tn-qr1kb yeah, making a joke

[@hotelmario510]

A lot of people talking about the Caretaker here, understandably, but I decided to read a bit about Al Bowlly. He was killed by the Nazi Luftwaffe in London in 1943 - an explosion outside his flat blew the bedroom door's hinges off and he was struck in the head by the metal hinge while in bed, dying instantly. He was only 43. He could have been as famous as Bing Crosby. Very sad.

[@kurskbhc6779]

ikr, rip al bowlly

[@thegongoolzler2677]

Darn...

[@bushranger3337]

1941

[@gallevitikusgenderlordmigo6324]

...but he lives on in our memories.. even if we only hear him recorded or distorted... he will always be remembered for what he was: a musician, that indirectly influenced a lot of millenials....

[@furiousstudios4438]

Of course, the one thing to take this legend down was something by the NAZIS.

[@hybridgarden]

When you take “I don’t remember asking” to another level

[@silly_lil_guy]

Wait... Did i really remember anythi- WAIT A FUCKING MINUTE-

[@megacynical37]

@@silly_lil_guy no stfu

[@rally2433]

@@megacynical37 stfu

[@almubarizunarchery4607]

"My dude thats crazy but i dont remember asking" "Bro you did ask me" "When did I?" "Literally just now" "......." "Who are you?"

[@hybridgarden]

@@almubarizunarchery4607 "who am I?"

[@lorddrakkongaming]

I lost my dog today. this is the only song i could think of, i miss her so much, i feel dead, she was a 10 year old golden retriever, she slipped, and her hips were so bad, she was suffering and had stage four kidney failure, i just want her back, she was such a good dog, i just wanna give her one last big hug.

[@combycat]

i feel so bad for you. life is tough but not enough to quit.

[@korlhorl]

Rest in peace dude. Hope you’re feeling better.

[@Epicman594]

that just made me cry.

[@Fruitlahoop]

I’m sorry for your loss. There aren’t any words that I can use to make the pain go away. Just know I also lost a pet dear to me from kidney failure as well. If anything my pet was more of a kid to me. I loved her with every ounce I had. No one can ever replace that love I had for her. My world feels empty. One things for sure, as miserable as this life seems I’m curious to see how mine plays out. I think she’d want me to keep pushing and to be happy. So I’m trying I really am, and I don’t want to give up for her. Please try for your little one too. You are being watched by her. I can feel her drive of wanting to live burning inside me.

[@gunpowderguy]

Every concious and self-aware creature is never ready to experience the trauma of losing a loved one. I have an ancient jack Russell dog, she is 16 or so years old and is probably not going to make it to the end of the year, and she was a energetic and beautiful dog, who warmly accepted any person, and only shows anger in our younger dog, who is a complete menace, and constantly attacks our other dog/s.

[@breakingmad2645]

Fun fact: It was Al Bowlly’s “caretaker” who found his body, his head got fatally hit by the bedroom door when a Luftwaffe bomb detonated outside his home in WW2 while he was sleeping.

[@lu0z9_the_I]

One of the 4653 reasons to dislike nazis

[@Mostbee]

Another commenter said it was a land mine... internet needs to get his facts straight

[@ryand.3858]

@@Mostbeeit’s a bit interesting…believe it or not the Nazis decided to repurpose massive sea mines as parachute bombs in the air raids against Britain. These mines were designed to sink ships so you can imagine how devastating it was when that 2200lb bomb would go off in a city.

[@GBVideoGuy]

the fact someone with a roblox walter white pfp comments this makes this gooderer

[@mush6681]

​@@Mostbeea landmine is a bomb A parachute mine is also a bomb

[@tamihansen2853]

After hearing “It’s just a burning memory” I’m glad I can hear this song without feeling fear and dread

[@HeortirtheWoodwarden]

The Caretaker made the song much more sad and gloomy than it was

[@tamihansen2853]

Ulfarr Varg the caretaker made me feel like I was in a giant 1920’s mall that’s completely empty and so a red tint everywhere

[@HeortirtheWoodwarden]

@@celconviction451 Exactly! I'm impressed

[@corenlavolpe6143]

Even listening to the original version I still get a fear response. I guess the Caretaker really messed with me that deeply.

[@Aladayle]

@@corenlavolpe6143 You wanna mess yourself up even more, go directly to "It's just a burning memory" after hearing this

[@Vivionto]

0:59 “I guess you guys aren’t ready for that yet, but your grandkids are gonna love it.”

[@maxdamage7331]

I got the reference. Really for few, AND also as correct as possible. Enjoy a cool like.

[@ortherner]

more like great grandkids.

[@Wiicxkk]

@@ortherner great great grandkids

[@ortherner]

@alfie Everywhere at the end of time.

[@fakethmoneth5001]

Imagine if this guy pulled an electric guitar out and went full rock and roll heart race instead of heart ache.

[@FramesJanco505]

Heartaches, heartaches My loving you, they're only heartaches Your kiss was such a sacred thing to me I can't believe it's just a burning memory Heartaches, heartaches What does it matter how my heart breaks? I should be happy with someone new But my heart aches for you

[@Jim_61]

We miss you, Sir Albert Allick Bowlly. You’ll never be forgotten anytime soon. You’re just a burning memory.

[@GIGLR]

dang

[@GippyHappy]

I didn't cry when I listened to Everywhere at the End of Time. But I cried listening to this. It's like waking up from a nightmare and being reminded that everything is okay.

[@jeremyaster7470]

if only it were a nightmare

[@oasis4everever]

Omg same

[@delete---7593]

@@jeremyaster7470 Wow weird tho thought?!. .🤔😑.

[@ninamarques341]

@@delete---7593 because dementia is very real and not just a nightmare

[@highprinceryoma4410]

What a beautiful way to describe it. People say this is stage 0, but perhaps it's also a stage 7 - the comforting idea of an afterlife where everything's alright, and whatever afflicted us here doesn't exist there. "He's in a better place now."

[@googlesearchhistory5249]

It sucks this guy literally died, unknowing that he was one of the casualties of WWII, because during the blitz, a bomb was dropped outside his hotel or something and the door was blown in, hitting and killing him. Now, like 80 years later, and his music was used to break a whole new generation with the caretaker’s work.

[@ImperiumRomanum476]

I believe it was from the battle of Britain and considering there were no tanks or infantry in that battle it was not the blitz. (Sorry, I'm a world war nerd so I explain to this everyone)

[@grundoid6796]

@@ImperiumRomanum476 He isn't American, also The Blitz is just a continuation/part of the Battle of Britain. He was a civilian casualty so yes it was during The Blitz.

[@justamlgpig8660]

well, if he knows about hat now, i hope he knows that i love his work and i remember him as a great guy. Rest In Peace.

[@ye8960]

In 1930's his song were played in the ballrooms. In 1980 his song (midnight, the stars and you) appeard in the shining credits. In 2016 it appeard 3 times in the caretaker album.

[@fastfishtoo4991]

@@ImperiumRomanum476 The London blitz is apart of the Battle of Britain. You might be thinking of blitzkrieg, the German tactics of rapid meth-fueled invasion. My grandmother was a girl during the London blitz, remembered the bombs and the dogfights.

[@derpyenz4946]

No autotune🔥 No autotune🔥 No autotune🔥 No autotune🔥 No autotune🔥 Just straight🔥

[@osasin3437]

Ass🔥

[@retroguy3344]

@@osasin3437-🤓

[@rizkyagung997]

​@@osasin3437Boobs🔥

[@revertingCell]

@@rizkyagung997Pingas🔥

[@conejodemercurio6301]

@@revertingCell vaginas

[@ilikepizza8206]

We getting out the nursing home with this one 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@ellisjones8269]

Your Tapped

[@efraim6960]

there's no getting out of the nursing home

[@SoupyMittens]

Theres no getting out of the nursing home, remember? Theres no getting out of the nursing home, remember? Theres no getting out of the nursing home, remember? Theres no getting out of the nursing home, remember?

[@ArizonanRanger]

This is rancid

[@mahino420]

ur getting out, to the afterlife, considering dementia is gg@@efraim6960

[@nevinstartman8556]

he's so talented that he didnt even have to move his mouth to sing

[@TonyMontana-wo5rz]

i wish i could like a comment twice

[@Enfix2509]

I cant wait someone to get woooosh’d.

[@ziglind]

no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! its an image!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

[@TonyMontana-wo5rz]

@@ziglind omg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOSH!!!!!!!!?!?! gdt rekt lmao nub🤣🤣🤣😎😎😎😎😎😎😎💀💀💀💀

[@TonyMontana-wo5rz]

@@ziglind 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵😎🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵

[@CaptCool88]

Imagine being an old person listening to this for nostalgia sake. then everyone is talking about dementia and you're confused

[@memescoffee3173]

perhaps they dont renember

[@MusicTheoryLover]

@@memescoffee3173 perhaps they never did.

[@veltzon4322]

Did they… forget?

[@zadiczane7618]

@@veltzon4322 they forgor💀

[@thehuman2734]

They would have to be pretty old since this song is nearly a hundred years old

[@catgirlali]

this song gives me goosebumps every time i listen to it. it gives me nostalgia for something i never even experienced

[@Sentient-potato]

Ikr

[@Dirty_Dope]

Same

[@Fun-ot4yl]

I agree. I would have just said "same"" but someone else already did.

[@touchgrass7129]

or...something you don't remember experiencing.

[@GambitGaming08]

it gives a feeling of abandoned 1920’s cartoons

[@BananaLock]

When you’re happy, you enjoy the song When you’re sad you understand the lyrics 😔

[@PaulKar]

ARE YA WINNING SON? ...son? ...who are you?

[@gibraltar2843]

Dad, you okay?

[@staardusterr]

Dad... Dad.. It's me.

[@masooon]

My name “Jeff”. Like this comment if you laughed at “Gif”

[@IQislowerthan40]

Underrated comment

[@cpq16]

What?

[@jamesj5565]

Imagine being Al Bowlly in the 1930s writing this after breaking up with your ex not knowing it'll cause widespread emotional damage almost 100 years later

[@vinicius78alves]

He didn't write the song.

[@arcynull]

@@vinicius78alves Just replace Al Bowlly with the songwriter's name I guess

[@johnthomas4108]

@@vinicius78alves wasn't it Ray Noble?

[@vinicius78alves]

@@johnthomas4108 no. the writers of this song are Al Hoffman & John Klenner

[@johnthomas4108]

@@vinicius78alves thanks

[@circaz]

The orchestra in the back is lovely!! I could dance for hours to this, I can tell why ballroom music was so popular.

[@qinghu6540]

It’s just a burning memory.

[@nvp1914]

I just realized "it's just a burning memory" is a line in this song. god

[@Numfussle]

and "What Does It Matter How My Heart Breaks"

[@EverywhereAnEmptyBliss]

@@Numfussle and "and heart breaks" edit also there is a stage 4 of the song

[@drceno]

it's like the patient doesn't know the name of the song, so they just take a lyric.

[@EverywhereAnEmptyBliss]

@@drceno hmm makes sense

[@goofyahhdog8183]

Turn it to 0.5 and realize how getting alzheimer's would affect your family.

[@bin2805]

This isn't the good ending. It's the neutral one. You don't have dementia, but you are still suffering a heartache.

[@grayfishification]

Heartache is a part of life, you can get over it, and find a new love, it even makes you a bit stronger. You can't get over your health when it starts to decay, it's the beginning of an end.

[@ahumblepotato9801]

@@grayfishification Hence neutral ending.

[@JetSetDman]

I mean, people don’t always listen to music that matches their mood. Ever listened to a breakup song because you liked it and not because you recently suffered a breakup?

[@oslonicl6251]

What's the good ending then?

[@tubegerm6732]

@@oslonicl6251 wedding of the painted doll

[@user-bk7pe7me2n]

The band leader Ray Noble once said of Al Bowlly that he often stepped away from the microphone with tears in his eyes: “never mind him making you cry, he could make himself cry!” Albert Allick Bowlly, who some say invented ‘crooning’ or as he called it “The Modern Singing Style” - an expressive style of singing that took advantage of the invention of the microphone in 1931 - was an incredibly influential singer before World War 2. Women, in particular, were susceptible to his not inconsiderable vocal charms. His music has featured in some of the most famous ‘cult’ films of the last few decades including The Shining, Amelie and Withnail and I. He was born in Mozambique, then a Portuguese colony, to Greek and Lebanese parents who met en route to Australia but moved to South Africa. After travelling and busking his way to Europe he made his first recording in 1927 in Berlin with Irving Berlin’s Blue Skies. He then came over to London as part of the Fred Elizalde’s orchestra. Their version of ‘If I Had You’ became a hit in America - maybe the first British jazz record to do so. It wasn’t initially a smooth ride to fame for Bowlly the onset of the Great Depression in 1929 meant that he had to return to several months of busking to survive. In wasn’t too long, however, before he signed two contracts - one in May 1931 with Roy Fox, singing in his live band for the Monseigneur Restaurant in London, the other a record contract with Ray Noble’s orchestra in November 1930.

[@user-bk7pe7me2n]

also, its a shame he died at 41, he could have lived longer, and made more songs.

[@rogue.6921]

So that's why I love his music so much!

[@GIGLR]

just the wikipedia page but sure

[@polish-ecuadoriandoge4044]

@@user-bk7pe7me2n He died from the bombings in britan

[@Yelleranger]

Leaving this comment here so i can remember this song when my comment gets liked

[@PTSayoriD]

The song that broke a generation...nine decades after it first released.

[@ItsLynch1]

More like nearly a century. This shit came out in like the 30’s or 20’s

[@dexterjettster3683]

@@ItsLynch1 well “everywhere at the end of time” came out this generation. Before that this song was considered normal

[@ItsLynch1]

@@dexterjettster3683 the og comment was referring to Al Bowlly not The Caretaker’s EATEOT. So no it is not of this generation

[@loggermoment]

@@ItsLynch1 well nine decades is 90 years so if it came out in the 30's, then OP's statement is correct.

[@agentkayl5127]

@@loggermoment OP is close enough. This song came out in 1931. The Caretaker’s version came out in 2016.

[@lazergators]

both the original and caretaker version are actually depressing because this one talks about a man who was most likely dumped by his romantic lover but despite finding someone new to love, he can't help but look back at those burning memories and feel heartaches.

[@keeper80]

Incredible u have 61 likes and no one commented

[@theoverseer393]

Good point. It’s a familiar feeling I had for a little. Used to crush on a best friend, and I had some moments where I’d think of them a lot. They’re still a friend of mine, We just finally agreed that there’s distance between us. It’s a load off my back. I’m pretty much over her, though since my GF had a similar history of sorts where we were friends and eventually grew to be in love, I used to have weird issues thinking about my gf where I’d use my friend’s name instead. I probably still had some feelings for her, but I acknowledged them and confronted them already, so I don’t do that anymore. Best Friend’s not a stranger, but she’s not a close friend like we once were. But even if she lived close by and we could chat a lot, my heart would only belong to my GF and her alone. Gf’s the one for me

[@Top_Shrimper]

Funny you should say that Al bowlly was married to a woman called freda Roberts but got divorce in 1934 and ended up remarried later that year

[@yuriyco_]

Better than having dementia so shush

[@colorbar.s]

@@yuriyco_ no need to compare tragedy. they're both awful in their own right.

[@jamesv4427]

Listening to this and burning memory side by side is so fun and disturbing

[@Lykoskia]

In a few days it will be a year since my dear grandmother passed away. She had been struggling with dementia in her last years, and had to be transferred to a nursing home in her final months because she became resigned, dissociated, immobile, incoherent and confused. I had never seen anyone with dementia before, and it was shocking. She also refused all treatment ("what do doctors know, what can they do"), so her condition worsened rapidly. Thankfully, at least she was taking medication. There is nothing quite as haunting as having someone you love look you straight in the eye, completely confused, and ask you things like "who are you" or "what are you doing here" or "where am I"? I've heard her suicidal rants several times at that point, I've felt her pain, but I'd never seen these lapses in memory, these frightened and confused periods where she, with CHILDISHLY FRESH EYES revealed her INTERNAL BEWILDERED WORLD. And the realization that there's nothing I could say to make her remember, to repair her mind, to explain who I was or answer any of those questions... that broke me. I cried into her bedsheet, I cried and I cried. She looked at me confused, who is this man and why is he crying and what is going on here... Sometimes she would be like that, other times she would talk nonsense completely confident in the absurd gibberish she was telling me, completely certain that ALL THAT FOLLOWS IS TRUE. I never really understood any of it, but later I tried learning as much as I could about what she was going through after she passed away. Eventually, I came upon EATEOT... There were days where she was mostly ok, thinking that she was there for something that happened in the 19th century or clearly remembering things that definitely never happened, but mostly coherent, probably thinking I STILL FEEL AS THOUGH I AM ME -- MISPLACED IN TIME, but still well before SURRENDERING TO DESPAIR. Seeing her LATE AFTERNOON DRIFTING like that made me realize WE DON'T HAVE MANY DAYS and that A LOSING BATTLE IS RAGING. And now that she's gone... I can't believe IT'S JUST A BURNING MEMORY. I love you, grandma. I cherish those moments we looked INTO EACH OTHER'S EYES. I would run away, knowing that there was nothing I could say when you were confused, but later finding you coherent, as if nothing had happened - those were GLIMPSES OF HOPE IN TRYING TIMES. I wanted to believe that that was it, you were better now, you recovered, it's over. Everything was fine again... Until it wasn't. It was such a rollercoaster to find you had forgotten me again. I suddenly realized that THE WAY AHEAD FEELS LONELY... for both of us. But all of that was a blessing in itself. It taught me about THINGS THAT ARE BEAUTIFUL AND TRANSIENT. Because eventually it would get worse. Eventually there was no going back. When the line was crossed, it just became an ACHING CAVERN WITHOUT LUCIDITY. At least the LAST MOMENTS OF PURE RECALL granted us another chance to connect, understand, have context, have cognitive capabilities and shared memories. But eventually it just became A CONFUSION SO THICK YOU FORGET FORGETTING... She was lost. There was nothing you could do. There was nothing you could say. She was too far gone. I wasn't there when she died, which makes me happy and sad at the same time. I know that she must have been lonely, horrified, confused, bewildered... But I also know that being there would have meant nothing if she couldn't understand or appreciate it. It would have just scarred me even worse, and she would not have felt better. I'm sad that it was just a sudden "she's no longer with us", but also happy that neither of us had to go through that moment. I'm already pretty broken as it is. All of these (and more) song titles are burned into my mind, like someone took that branding iron or whatever it's called, and just penetrated my skull, directly imprinting the words, and the context of those words directly into my brain. I have my own struggles, mostly with depression, my life having changed dramatically in the last years, my past life feeling like it's some distant, alien, surreal experience -- as if I was living someone else's life, or dreaming, or like I have dementia myself now and can't relate to something I think I experienced. The years have blurred it away, it feels distant, foreign, uncharacteristic (the things I thought and felt at the time couldn't possibly come from this broken mind), and I want to go back, or at least remember it more fully but I can't. It doesn't make sense, it's so different, so far removed from the current context that it's impossible to reconcile the two. And it will never happen again. I will never get those days back. Things change, people change, they pass away. My anxiety literally prevents me from feeling the way I felt in better days even for a moment. I spend entire days burying my head in the sand whenever possible, trying to do things I used to do back then, evoke the memories, bring back the atmosphere, pretend for a moment that it's still like that, nothing's changed, I'm still young, free, she's alive, nothing that broke me (and there's been a lot through the years) ever happened. But I can't. There's no going back. It's just a burning memory. And some day it'll burn out so much that nothing will remain. I will just feel a deep hole where I know something was there, something is missing, something I don't even know anymore, and something that will never come back. Even now, while still completely sane and coherent (and knowing that I won't forever be), in this moment I feel the dread creeping in, a kind of rückkehrunruhe, a bit of olēka as you learn that most, or all, will fade, and unfortunately, maybe even today will be not just forgotten, but also attempted to be remembered in even worse times, as one of the "good old days". Because life has shown me that it can always get worse. No matter how bad it is, how hard it is, how broken or hopeless you feel - it gets worse. It always get worse. And like those empty, confused eyes that will haunt me to the end of my days - there's nothing I can do about it. I hope nobody ever has to go through it with me, and I hope I will die long before I experience what she had to anyway. I'm sorry for the long rant. BURNING DESPAIR DOES ACHE. Sometimes I just wish to experience AN EMPTY BLISS BEYOND THIS WORLD. I would be sad to lose who I am and what I went through, yes, THE LOVES OF MY ENTIRE LIFE were pretty magical back when they happened. I barely remember them now, and I have not loved in years. I am too broken to. I don't remember them well, I don't feel anything anymore. But somehow, even though it meant a lot to me at the time, even though it made me what I am today, there's a part of me that just wants it all to just leave me alone. I wish I could just cast it all aside and be, if not happy, then at least unburdened. Because what good are the memories that you just agonize over? Yes, it happened, yes it was beautiful, but it's over. You can't feel it again. The memory isn't as powerful as the first time you felt it. And with time, the memory will burn away. And you have to suffer through the entire process. I wish I could say that MY HEART WILL STOP IN JOY. It probably won't. It'll probably break, beat me to death, make me wish I was never born and then finally let me die, after having lived longer than I'd want to. But it may not even be that simple. If I end up like her, I'll wish for death long before it finds me, and I won't be able to do anything about it. I'll probably die terrified, confused, alone, unable to communicate or understand, drowning in sorrow until it chokes my soul. Compared to that, you could say that Al Bowlly had it easy and went from "everything's fine" to not existing anymore. I wish I could have that, but at the same time, I doubt any of us are ever really ready to let it all go. I want to pull the trigger, but I always beg for "just one more day". I might be sane and lucid, but I'm still incredibly confused and horrified. At least her struggles are over now.

[@booallthegoodhandles]

this was too long to read for me, but rest in peace to your grandma random internet stranger. sorry for your loss

[@OuroborosTheProtobean]

so sorry for your loss, bruv. wish ya well

[@Lykoskia]

@@OuroborosTheProtobean Thanks, sorry for the wall of text though. Venting my soul really helped me cope with it. I guess my anguished thoughts just needed release, any EATEOT was my vessel (and this song as one of the samples and influences). Thanks for the kind words.

[@MrJoseoz]

My eyes were so full of tears reading your story, because I have lived those horrors too.i just don't have have the balls to kill my self but my days since October 31,2020 have been a living hell ,lost mom and spouse to cancer, I sit in my apt staring at their photos. So sorry for your loss,I wish u the strength to carry on. P.S I read all u wrote❤

[@Lykoskia]

@@MrJoseoz sorry for your loss. I find that I have a different feeling altogether. I do not wish to end it -- although I have many times during my decade of depression -- but I feel so broken that I simply don't feel. Sometimes I wish I could cry, look at her photos and grieve, but all I feel is numb and empty. I constantly feel like my life is in danger, always some kind of impending undefined dread and always a "need to power through this, I can bleed later" except on rare occasions when that wall crumbles briefly. I pray for days I can get myself to slow down, relax and process it. Like the one when I wrote the comment. In any case, everywhere at the end of time was such a great experience, especially the track titles. My god how they stabbed me and finally allowed me to bleed some of the poison finally... take care and know that it always gets better... somehow. I hate this empty feeling but I can't exactly call it suffering either. Compared to the years I spent wrecked... this is fine. I wish you better days.

[@TheseHotIdiots]

Normal people: Now dis is a toe tapper! Caretaker fans: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@kevinhixson1586]

Confused screaming.

[@volk9327]

this album changed my life, i can't listen to any ballroom song without feeling intense amounts of fear and dread

[@osakanone]

This is the silent generation's Plastic Love. Let that sink in.

[@Squiddiessquids]

@@volk9327 Same 👁💧👄💧👁

[@Daddy-ue1du]

@@volk9327 The album just made me like old music more.

[@metalgearzwei]

imagine, if you will, being Al Bowlly, recording Heartaches, unaware that your song will become a haunting, disturbing interpretation of the most horrifying neurological disease

[@cunnieseverywhere]

and the interpretation gained a shit fandom

[@Metehan_BD]

Cool

[@gabrielchasecanceladosinap3959]

"Well. They used my song as the happiest memory in an old person's life, isn't it? So. It Doesn't matter if it had became grim in your culture now. Because if I made happy your grandparents when they heard me. That's something I can Live with. And also. It's a matter of time until someone finds the original. Hahaha"

[@cunnieseverywhere]

@@gabrielchasecanceladosinap3959 god -zilla- had a stroke trying to read this

[@deletoblue5397]

The backrooms.

[@holdenshideout6969]

0:01 Welcome all timed listeners.

[@JDH___]

get out of my head

[@holdenshideout6969]

@@JDH___ Nuh-Uh.

[@XanderAnimations]

get in my head

[@holdenshideout6969]

@@XanderAnimations Yuh-Huh.

[@RegitNevard]

stand on top of my head

[@annasoszynska7]

Kocham muzykę sprzed 100 lat... Św. Pamięci babcia, prababcia...łezka w oku kręci się...❤

[@Zeyad_8899]

❤😢

[@RipRLeeErmey]

Stage 7: You wake up, in unmatched fear. Your eyes quickly dash around the room, until laying themselves upon a calendar. The year is once again 1931, it is the month of August. You realized all of that was just a horrible, horrible nightmare. You sigh in relief, as the man on the radio plays a brand new Al Bowlly song, all the way from Europe. You swear you just heard this song in your dream... but by now, it's all just a burning memory.

[@joshuagraham3]

Thanks sarge

[@snogglepop2554]

hotel: hang on i forgot the joke

[@BearerOfDreams]

The good ending

[@strigers8007]

Plot twist: It's an endless cycle

[@dan5213]

I think you just described terminal lucidity

[@Omnywrench]

No wonder its just a burning memory; this shit's fire

[@dolaris738]

like a damn volcanic eruption

[@ace6798]

SMOOTH JOKE MY FRIEND

[@prump]

i really like this joke but i can't like the comment since it has 69 likes

[@awesomecat]

@@prump redditor alert

[@fritzyfritzyfritzyfritzy]

underrated comment

[@h2jgaming894]

Jesus.. this song gives me a chill like it's not supposed to exist..

[@VintageGirly13]

"It's just a burning memory"

[@carl_the_]

Stage 0: Before dementia strikes. All memories are intact, everything is well. Until dementia strikes...

[@cleb5216]

this sounds like some movie *when dementia strikes*

[@thepunishersequence291]

@@cleb5216 yoo imagine a movie visualizing eateot where the music always plays split into 2 movies of course

[@peanutcruncher1349]

All memories were intact, until the dementia nation attacked

[@thefoxfacility]

It's just a burning memory.

[@vulfura]

So I don’t have dementia until I have dementia

[@lolnadroj]

Absolutely insane that in 10 years, this song will be a century old.

[@nathanhall2115]

Yes it's insane

[@flohwalzer]

ikr jesus christ

[@Fatchick2316]

O_O

[@hyumaru.mp6]

And all of us will switch to newer music. I guess you could say the song will just be a burning memory. Bad joke, I know.

[@NormalChannel95]

a century? A CENTURY!? A C E N T U R Y ! ?

[@RafaDellOFC]

1931: Al bowlly Just dropped another song! 2016: everywhere at the end of time... 2023: THIZ BACKROOM!!?1!1!?!!1!!

[@when_my_imposter_was_sus]

true it feels annoying about people saying this song was from the backroom bruh 💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@Okura000]

2090: Ѫ's Depression. 2146: . . . 10000000: or is it. 9000000023: ⊙ 01010101010: 00000100011110010101110100110

[@when_my_imposter_was_sus]

@@Okura000 wtf

[@user-cu9rb9cx6m]

​@@when_my_imposter_was_suswait they think it's from WHERE!? Now.

[@Relecovery]

LOS TRASTEROS

[@youngblood6281]

1920s: Oh my! What a wonderful melody about love! 2020s: dontforgetdontforgetdontforgetdontforgetdontforgetdontforgetdontforgetdontforgetDONTFORGETDONTFORGETDONTFORGETDONTFORGET

[@Meforreal-8688]

2050:what is my grandfather and my great grandfather listening to?👶

[@BananaLock]

the end is never the end is never the end is never the end is never the end is never the end is never the end is never the end is never the end is never the end is never the end is never the end is never the end is never the end is never the end is never the end is never the end is never the end is never the end…

[@Marl0n_Ferreira]

This song makes me feel *an empty bliss beyond this world*

[@FlowerBed]

you son of a-

[@grugg3108]

Worth being the top comment

[@guardiandirewolf]

I feel the same in a way

[@porp109]

I must be on Everywhere at the End of Time - Stage 6, because I don't remember asking

[@elpachas5216]

soy

[@TheSupremeDuck]

"i cant believe its just a burning memory" GUYS HE SAID THE THING HE SAID THE THING

[@lucabartali1768]

Oh God he do it OH GOD HE DO IT I MUST TAKE A PHOTO OF THIS

[@borchietheoofgod7045]

Some of the lyrics in this song are also used as song names for EATEOT.

[@borchietheoofgod7045]

@@specialism640 yes

[@raymanueltorresportocarrer738]

What does matter how My heart breaks?

[@joegaming6755]

@@raymanueltorresportocarrer738 fax

[@skilart8588]

Эта песня одновременно успокаивает и нагоняет тревогу, прекрасная песня

[@Edricama]

I find it comforting that this song actually ends, instead of fading out indefinitely and uncertainly

[@snoote533]

@@trogon4503 The better ending

[@MicrozEditzz]

F-F-Fa-*Fading?*

[@4astral]

@@MicrozEditzz joe mama

[@SomeoneYouHate]

It a way (i kmow it impossible) it like you found a cure to dementia and now you can live rest of your lufe peacfully

[@richardgibson8403]

@Vc É Corno yes, that is a word, in the English language

[@PigIA]

He died in the blitz, not knowing that 80 years after his death, his song would have such a revival

[@L0rdOfThePies]

Respect

[@MemeControlyt]

Shall the facist stay dead not only for killing so many others. but a man who bought joy to millions.

[@danielsgarden9283]

Sad. Midnight the stars and you if the GOAT

[@BogusmanTheSwagman]

I find Everywhere at The End of Time's domination of this song to be disrespectful to his memory.

[@danielsgarden9283]

@@BogusmanTheSwagman yeah,I like everywhere at the end of the time but he gets no credit for it

[@joe2249]

Oh I remember this song!

[@joe2249]

Hey, I remember this song!

[@joe2249]

Oh, I remember this song!

[@joe2249]

Oh I remember this one!

[@I_am_a_skeleton898]

This is such a good song! This is such a good song!

[@Relecovery]

I agree! This song Is really cool

[@Relecovery]

I agree! This song Is really cool!

[@Relecovery]

I agree! This song Is really cool!

[@Relecovery]

I agree! This song Is really cool!

[@nof8butwhatwemake]

((0))-((0))

[@MAXTHEKlD]

Imagine you have never heard of this song, yet it’s already watched on your history.

[@bazboyd44]

Damn you autoplay

[@spottedbread750]

@@bazboyd44 damn you, falling asleep with autoplay on

[@tentilol]

hahahah paused watch history go BRRRRRR

[@muhammadriedhoramadhansyaf5086]

*Oh no!* Someone hacked your YT account *AAAAAAAAAAAAAA*

[@mihailaandrei8476]

Why does no one get the joke

[@donnaquixote7538]

Kids today: My gf / bf just left me, I'm gonna listen to something really dark. Kids back then:

[@callmefox630]

Tfw "It's the end of the world" is one of the more darker breakup songs in the 60s

[@Xmvtjets96X]

And now we've come back full cycle.

[@lyndafayesmusic]

These are the saddest lyrics to the happiest melody I've ever heard!

[@crystalsou1s]

@@callmefox630 this song is from 1931...

[@monkeybusinessinc.9950]

Nah king she just left me I went straight to this music

[@XERO-NEON]

Who else listening in 2024

[@Lolbit1986]

When you finally remember...

[@mercenaryhk3465]

Anime opening: heartaches Anime ending: just a burning memory

[@dustlangford1253]

True

[@jukio8510]

Fuck off with this anime shit

[@spiicypotato]

@@jukio8510 Funny name you got there, kiddo. It would be a shame if we perhaps... took it off the phone books somehow?

[@jukio8510]

@@spiicypotato *has a anime pfp and calls me a "kiddo"* lmao ok i couldnt think of any other name is their a problem?

[@peanutcruncher1349]

@@jukio8510 are you an "anime is overrated" person or a "haha anime bad funny" person

[@burntburndog]

People only talk about "it's just a burning memory" being in a line in the song but no one talks about "what does it matter how my heart breaks".

[@chippydippy1530]

Thats bc it uses a different version of heartache sung by segar ellis

[@burntburndog]

@@chippydippy1530 wdym

[@---eh4ls]

It really doesn't matter tho... it will be just a burning memory

[@clapped-cheeks]

1:07 it’s right here dude idk what he means by that

[@Aritanmalgobinschnipar]

2:49 is the part where I found out where "And Heart Breaks" comes from.

[@twistedbaspin0822]

Thanks for the upload. This has always been burning in my memory.

[@wilbursmoonwater]

lyrics

[@XxLeeLightningxX]

Stage 6 is without description.

[@mexicocity3956]

:(

[@MegoZ_]

*Stage 6 is without description.*

[@flyingspacebrainedidiot]

s t a g e 6 i s w i t h o u t d e s c r i p t i o n

[@disjointedhoudini]

stage 6 truly was without description

[@R1ndar]

Stage 6 post-awareness is without description.

[@allie99524]

Phase 0: There are no signs of dementia or cloudiness. Jaunty tunes from bygone days can be heard and remembered as if it was just yesterday. No signs of memory loss whatsoever. Memories can still be enjoyed clearly to their fullest extent. Blissfully unaware of the dreadful existential decline that is to come........

[@mstech-gamingandmore1827]

Perfect

[@user-ce5tk8zw5w]

Control c control v

[@youraveragefloridaboy519]

200th liek

[@RGNRK-rm1eq]

maybe you dont have dementia at all

[@annabellefawn4171]

Ah there's the existential dread

[@ODIN20084]

This song is so good

[@ItAppearsToBeSoupTime]

If you listen to ‘it’s just a burning memory’ and relate it to this song, your a certified legend

[@outofuseaccount9671]

When you finally found the description for Stage 6

[@lambsauce4273]

But you forgot...

[@nerisaac]

@@lambsauce4273 the thing you know..?

[@lambsauce4273]

@@nerisaac (they forgot the description of stage 6 because of dementia if you do not get the reference go watch something about Everywhere at the end of time)

[@nerisaac]

@@lambsauce4273 I do get it I was also making a joke

[@Doritokid_]

@@nerisaac terrible thing to joke about, stage 6 is just being brain dead essentially

[@BlancaStarBorn]

The ironic is that this song is about *not* forgeting someone, but it's now associated with dementia

[@flame5525]

Um br falando ingles :0

[@BlancaStarBorn]

@@flame5525 Droga fui descoberta >:(

[@hansreiner1637]

Do you know else suffers from dementia?

[@WW1N73R]

@@hansreiner1637 who?

[@andy-gamer]

@@WW1N73R joe

[@Tomato_boi]

This would go hard on the diamond city radio

[@ozakigamestudio]

fun fact: 6 years from now it will be the 30's again

[@Cry_Bitch]

time is flying.....(

[@GrumpyAboutEverything]

soon when they'll teach kids history about 20's it wouldn't just mean 1920's but 2020's too

[@superepic4026]

this isn’t a fun fact this is a creepy fact

[@ahmedalsaadi7048]

Stage zero: you think you have dementia but it's just illusions because you listened to the caretaker album a lot and now you're depressed.

[@Sweze]

uh oh, stage 0.5 you start to forget some details of memories you had as a kids

[@videoarchive3166]

@PanBaniški Stage .5: Oh Right, what was I doing?

[@techleontius9161]

@@videoarchive3166 this is more like stage 1

[@videoarchive3166]

@@techleontius9161 Stage.5: I forgot my lunch at home today.

[@magicmmmorshu3492]

@@videoarchive3166 Stage 5: I forgot my home today

[@amongbius]

In case there's someone who genuinely doesn't know what the young folks are taking about here in the comments: An artist in 2016 under the alias of "the caretaker" created a project named "everywhere at the end of time" where he described dementia through distorted old ballroom music. This song specifically was used by him (the caretaker) in that project 3 times (or more) in completely different ways. Listening to the original version of the song is quite interesting after getting scared and haunted by that melody for hours.

[@Daddy-ue1du]

What’s your cool icon? It looks like a show I knew.

[@Daddy-ue1du]

Did you choose the profile picture because you want to feel cool, or did you choose it because you’re actually cool? (Goth is an option too)

[@Daddy-ue1du]

I just looked her up and I can see how she is both cool and hilarious.

[@Daddy-ue1du]

Helga and creepy susie are my favorite.

[@apocalypticblox2346]

@@Daddy-ue1du I wonder how many times I’ll find you

[@James_Tracy]

Anyone in 2024

[@stefancretu7731]

yes

[@Plushie-vr-gtag]

yeah

[@Jijek-ku2xw]

Hey

[@WhyDidYoutubeAddHandle]

I like listening to old music and this is surely a great song RIP Al Bowlly

[@desu38]

Imagine this: You've had one of those new fangled computers for a while now. You usually use it for emails and such, but other than that, it really just sits there in the living room gathering dust. One day, though, after you finish checking your email as usual, you don't turn the computer off, instead you pause for a moment and think to yourself that maybe it's time you take a look at those "KZbins" you've been hearing so much about. So you look it up, and you surf around for a bit, just clicking whatever catches your eye. "Logan Paul? Linus Tech Tips? Vine? What's with the big eyes?" It's all pretty strange. Sometimes funny, sometimes interesting, but honestly it's mostly just confusing and somewhat alienating. You feel so old. You _are_ so old. Maybe all this new stuff just wasn't meant for you. But then... you find something you like, and then another thing, and another, and by the fifth thing, the website starts to catch on. Eventually something amazing happens. To your utter surprise, you see a familiar face, there on the right side of your screen. "Oh, my word! Al Bowlly?" You had almost forgotten about him! You definitely never would have imagined, even in a million years, you'd find him again on KZbin of all places. You put on his music for the first time in lord knows how many years. It brings back such lovely memories and it fills you with joy. "I never want to forget this."... then you scroll down.

[@vis5232]

Underrated comment

[@NotACutie]

I grew up on AddictingGames early 2000's internet and I still get the same sensation.

[@mstech-gamingandmore1827]

"then you scroll down."

[@Kindakrof]

and find the caretaker - everywhere at the end of time in the comments.

[@amongbius]

"I never want to forget this" Ouch

[@heyitsharry9381]

al Bowlly: I can't believe its just a burning memory!" everyone: AH! AH! HE SAID IT!

[@4nt0s]

heh, funi demntia song

[@lqu]

heh, funi patre groffn

[@sunnaiko]

*he said what*

[@flohwalzer]

who said

[@RecentTabEnthusiast]

@@flohwalzer wht?

[@Bffunicornhoney]

This is the tune I hum everyday and it was stuck in my head this whole time now I know what it is

[@bigboris9674]

Remember when this dropped, still a banger till this day 🥶

[@silverflight01]

Imagine it's the 1930s. You wake up as a young boy, this song playing in the living room while your parents made you breakfast. Your father is off to go to work and your mother stays behind and tends to the place. The memory of that song would sear into your little brain. As you grew up, you heard the song less and less, but still had perfect memory of it anyways. Now we jump 9 decades. You listen to this song, and for some reason, it doesn’t sound the same to you. The way you hear it, it's just different from how you remembered. You hear words you don’t remember hearing before, and the song sounds less vivid. It's just a burning memory.

[@lookatmeplease]

We don’t have many days

[@witherambush]

@@lookatmeplease late afternoon drifting

[@12vi]

@@witherambush Childishly fresh eyes

[@dor6251]

@@12vi My heart will stop in joy

[@telamark]

How tf did u live through ww2, the great depression, Vietnam, the Korean War, 9/11, and so much more

[@avriil6446]

When the doctor tell you your dementia has been reverted thanks to the medications

[@panchikofan123]

@@HeortirtheWoodwarden stfu

[@derrilazkia1002]

Far in the future where medications has grown exponentially

[@panchikofan123]

@@HeortirtheWoodwarden woah, I didn't know furries are that stupid and can't understand basic commands.

[@panchikofan123]

@@HeortirtheWoodwarden me

[@majamystic256]

@@HeortirtheWoodwarden i like furries

[@CodenameNarwhal]

this is my first time listening to it its great!

[@CodenameNarwhal]

this is my first time listening to it its great!

[@CodenameNarwhal]

this is my first time listening to it its great!

[@ThighFish]

The fact that this song is by him is just a burning memory.

[@user-bx2sj4nz3m]

Dementia? Everywhere at the end of what? You must have taken a nasty fall back there, old sport. Get dressed, we're going ballroom dancing with a few lady friends tonight. I heard they even have that new Al Bowlly song! This is going to be an unforgettable night isn't it, old pal?

[@m.a.g8768]

Wholesome

[@moss5356]

100

[@bumperbonnie5721]

wholesome

[@PetikG]

I see what you did there by using the word "unforgettable."

[@AlyphRat]

Why did I read that out loud with Joe Biden's voice?

[@bananawhobananawho]

1931: What a great song. I hope people in the distant future will remember this song and Al Bowlly for what it is! 2021: ...

[@Leo-rl7qi]

the caretaker: you mad AI bowly? **troll face**

[@hellodrfumiya1881]

Now that’s just disrespectful.

[@marolugi6451]

Yeah

[@themixtape440]

*dosent remember period*

[@joaquincoboj1531]

D I S R E S P E C C

[@avapreston8134]

this is really eerie for no reason

[@katiejimenez7463]

It just a burning memory 😢😢

[@Chester-ep3oy]

Wish i hadn't seen the dementia version first, this song really slaps heck out of it

[@rubberduck2078]

same

[@CGFillertext]

Listening to this after the dementia version feels like “the good ending”. No dementia, no degradation, you are old but your life is still full of love and happiness

[@Civilized-Joke]

@@CGFillertext And thank the heavens many even well into old age do pass away with their memory intact.

[@brunoleite3958]

The "dementia one" isn't supposed to be the better one anyways lol

[@violetmolloy68]

ik this one is so relaxing and happy 😭😭😭😭😭

[@thisleftylefty]

Al Bowlly went from getting people to dance when he was on the scene, to getting people creeped out 50 years later in The Shining, to getting people to question the meaning of life and memory and contemplate the severity of dementia 90 years later in EATEOT (edit: corrected to 90 years, from 100)

[@martianbuilder5945]

Today I learned that he was also in The Shining! It is worth mentioning though that after watching more analysis videos on the topic, it is a clear conclusion that many of the Caretaker's works were heavily influenced _by_ the Shining. It's only natural that he'd pick another work by the same guy.

[@spycrab3723]

First off, he was in the shining? Secondly, it's about 90 yrs old, Al Bowlly's "Heartache"

[@thisleftylefty]

@@spycrab3723 Oh, I thought a lot of his hits were in the 20s, and Midnight, The Stars and You was the featured ballroom and ending credit song to the Shining

[@spycrab3723]

@@thisleftylefty oh ok

[@martianbuilder5945]

@@thisleftylefty Al's Wikipedia page says that he started singing in the mid 20s but didn't make any recordings until '27. Strangely enough, Midnight came out in 1934 (also according to Wikipedia) even though the "old pictures" in The Shining are supposedly from 1921.

[@terryburton2943]

He was such a fabulous entertainer, I play his music all the time

[@superpear64]

Heartaches, Heartaches. Why does it matter how my thoughts fade? When the slashing blades cut my memory open. Why did your tears make me so heartbroken? When there was just a talent that stayed?

[@theczechoslovakiankamerad7340]

Despite the song being ruined mentally by the Caretaker, let's all agree that it's melody and lyrics are great.

[@GIGATHEBOT]

indeed

[@funfourstudios]

Yes

[@thehermit8618]

If it was all in the name of bringing attention to dementia i can't really begrudge him this

[@lordvader5684]

True

[@spottedbread750]

Never thought I'd find myself vibing to a 1920's song and calling it a bop every chance I get, but here we are.