The Caretaker - A Stairway to the Stars (Full Album)

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Tracklisting :
00:00 - We Cannot Escape The Past
02:02 - Cloudy, Since You Went Away
06:15 - Emptiness
10:05 - Consigned To A Yesterday
15:18 - Masquerade Ball
19:20 - Malign Forces Of The Occult
22:41 - On The Edge Of Breakdown
24:47 - Robins And Roses
27:49 - Date With An Angel
31:00 - It's All Forgotten Now
34:04 - Each Today Doesn't Lead To A Tomorrow
35:54 - Home
38:00 - Friends Past Re-united
42:48 - A Stairway To The Stars
Album : A Stairway to the Stars (May 2002)
Artist / Credits :
Label - V/Vm Test Records ‎- OFFAL07
Music by - The Caretaker
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[@Spykyportable]

Well i did never heard it before

[@Youveprobablyneverheardofit]

And I hope you liked it

[@Spykyportable]

Yes but now i cant sleep...

[@Spykyportable]

Early Caretaker works are devastatingly haunting

[@Lepsuzzz]

stairway to heaven

[@QuidProQuo999]

Nice pfp, I see your a fan of William Basinski's work

[@comradeleah6924]

Knowing that their other albums are about memory loss, dementia/Alzheimer's I thought this album was called "stairway to the stairs"

[@user-kb1su7mg1g]

ywnbaw

[@progect3548]

Stairway to... More stairs?

[@user-kb1su7mg1g]

@@progect3548 he wont be a woman so who cares

[@atomrules1012]

Just do the backwards jump

[@therock1160]

a star to the stairways

[@ymisa8540]

"A Stairway To The Stars" doesn't feel like it's about a haunted ballroom. It makes me think of this strange realm that's between the Earth and Heaven...but with a bit of Hell in it as well. Not like Purgatory, but like a surreal Garden of Eden we are NOT supposed to be in.

[@johndoe-qb1fq]

It sounds and feel like ascending to Heaven...

[@greer546]

POV: you're going to Canada

[@fiyum333]

@@greer546 NO NO NO NON O IWIA TIIPLEAPS,E JDONT MSNESDM KME TO JNCANDNA KDMSAHBG AHAGFAAG ASAB I DOTBN WBABAB GIGDHNSN JDNSHJMSDF OD==DJSDI DONT SEND ME KAWEHAEJMSFDJ I DONT WNAN GO TO CIDIDANA ANEANDSSRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@CubicApocalypse128]

"We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far."

[@marzolaxo2456]

Those sunset glimpses

[@FlowerBed]

*This stairway doesn't go to the stars*

[@Youveprobablyneverheardofit]

Sad react 😔

[@deliciousfailure2590]

it goes beyond them. You wanna see glittery stars but somehow you ended up in the past and a space time continuum and you're wearing a top hat. huh.

[@morgankasper5227]

@Mirabilis Alba how else would they tourutre people who are scaared of hights?

[@JavanPatrickReigner]

oh, these are the stars alright.

[@ARHanif-ej7oz]

So this is what Anna had seen in The Martyrs Movie. Is it really the stairway?

[@terbentur2943]

I work in elderly care and caretaker made me reevaluate my work

[@WhaleManMan]

Would you say youve had any positive experiences with the illness?

[@bensoncheung2801]

77 likes on a comment posted 7 months ago!

[@masonthechemistryfreak6894]

funnily enough, eateot and the caretaker led me down a long path of dementia care youtube videos, where I discovered Teepa Snow and PAC, my medical role models

[@ausbossmoved]

@@bensoncheung2801 funi

[@MoRoKeiFrOd]

145 likes on a comment posted 1 year ago!

[@OfLanceTheLonginus]

You're in the woods, at midnight, walking past the pine trees with only the sound of the leaves beneath your shoes. 35:55 begins to play behind you.

[@PedroMouraLerBD]

Got a light?

[@TheTenebrianMachine]

Pedro Moura :-) ALL

[@sirpeetthelittle]

FUCKING

[@Ideennot]

@@TheTenebrianMachine This is the water, and this is the well.

[@vengeance1]

That's when you see him, Shia LaBeouf.

[@aloafofbagels6381]

Me during the first song: Hey, why is everyone so upset? I find this to be soothing. Me during the second song: Oh

[@stardragon7893]

First Caretaker song I've heard with lyrics. It's about a thousand times creepier that way.

[@revolutionstudios5052]

[bump] I actually like Cloudy, Since You Went Away a ton. Easily in my top 10 best tracks. Oh, sure, the distortion is a bit wonky, but it sounds like a bad iMovie effect, and the track beneath slaps harder than an abusive stepfather.

[@marzolaxo2456]

@@stardragon7893 the first song had lyrics

[@Mr-wd2wn]

honestly, i love both

[@nutshell12345]

​@@stardragon7893and EAEB?

[@phrog_7487]

Friends past reunited gives me very vivid flash backs to another album

[@argonize]

One that seems to be everywhere at the end of time

[@MAXTHEKlD]

I wash listening to the album without knowing about this one. I genuinely lost my shit and started loosing my mind.

[@Jello2763]

Yea I had a mental breakdown at this part lol

[@hetecks1385]

@Scorpio of GMD do it in the day But part of me says do it in thw night because that's the best experience I had

[@nin1094]

Yeah that sample also appears in Kirby's first album Selected Memories from the haunted ballroom, still makes me cry

[@Jader7777]

This music is like trying to pick up crumbs by licking the end of your finger and pressing down on them, except they're not crumbs, they are your memories.

[@Ray3d.]

what

[@heavyweaponsscout9990]

@@Ray3d. think

[@1jonque]

I love that analogy. I will use it myself when I get the chance. Very good.

[@malfunctionnnn]

it seems every time i think i know every album from the caretaker, i come across another

[@suniscopper]

Same thing with me BUT I instead walk down some stairs that never existed to begin with, throwing my hands in the air and saying "WHADOIDOO? WATCH THEM ALL!?" after I find out that there are infinite amounts of caretaker albums, me doing marathons and marathons of the tracks for weeks. Puts both a smile and hand on my face. Hand right on the forehead. Very wide smile.

[@BAKER_SWEETS]

V/vm

[@awesomemantroll1088]

You come across another you didn't remember

[@cheems0]

same here after a few days not much in tuesday i heard full eateot now im a caretaker fan and i love its music now thats why i come here

[@gnomechonky]

I know this is supposed to be about deterioration and dementia, but this does remind me of the time I smoked way too much salvia

[@Youveprobablyneverheardofit]

Accurate

[@Ellielulu_Ellielu]

I read salvia as saliva, and I was like "How do you smoke saliva..?" lmao

[@Thorin-MattfromGO]

It's not about deterioration nor dementia. It exemplifies a haunted ballroom, like from the Shining, where an old record player sits and plays music for no one. This album is part of The Haunted ballroom Trilogy. That being Selected Memories From The Haunted Ballroom, A Stairway To The Stars, and We'll All Go Riding On A Rainbow.

[@outtasightouttamind6263]

Did you feel like you were being stretched and twisted like taffy? Been there

[@Gaba_Ghoul]

@@Thorin-MattfromGO Looks like this didn’t remind me of The Shining for no reason

[@elionalejandroparedesborna2266]

I've seen a lot of people talking about how this might be another album about dementia bur i think that it isn't dementia, but death itself, the name give a small hint, but the music feels more like being on a deadbead with all your memories completely intact, and that's what this album wants us to feel, not the fear of forgeting, but the fear of death itself, the experience of remembering your whole life, the people you loved, the memories you've done, all the achievements, etc. just before it all fades away, and something that makes me even more sure that this is correct is friends past re-united which is pretty similar or the same song that EATEOT has at the end

[@thecarebear2360]

This album is actually the second installment of the haunted ballroom trilogy, a three part series inspired by the shining movie. I guess you're right in a way as it deals with dusty and forgotten memories from the ghosts that haunt the ballroom. Pretty good observation!

[@MelodiesFromTheStars]

@@thecarebear2360 the brar

[@dodsonboys]

Yeah when I saw the name "stairway to the stars" I interpreted it as the stairway to heaven

[@mistermystery1999]

Listening to this is probably not good for me

[@Youveprobablyneverheardofit]

Feel you

[@MicahMicahel]

really?

[@gametheorymedia]

(Probably still better for you than 'Everywhere At the End of Time', though -- o_0 )

[@themaker7822]

@@gametheorymedia I listen to it almost every day Xd

[@conbon3564]

meks yu srtonger

[@powerbeam08]

00:00 "Post Apocalyptic solitude (in black and white)" 35:55 "Trying to comprehend the movie 'Eraserhead' and it's ending" 42:48 "Waking up from a horrible nightmare and back into reality"

[@Malpheance]

@i change my pfp constantly The dementia one is brutal... I love how they handled it, half art, half explanation.

[@krishellenberg5715]

When I wake up from nightmares I feel good but at the same time traumatized cause my nightmares seem so vivid and so real that when I wake up, I question if it actually happened for a moment

[@jdmlajdm]

reminder to myself to not search up eraserhead ending again

[@user-er5kk8jg5c]

Right now watched this film only to understand this single comment, and yes, this is 100% true

[@alvarocataldo4651]

42:48 candy candy dark?

[@louise8073]

i cannot begin to say how much joy the caretaker's music brings me. i mean, i have my profile picture as the stage six album cover for a reason. it just brings me a ridiculous amount of serotonin, i don't know why. especially this album and "we'll all go riding on a rainbow". they're my favorites. while i'm a bit disheartened that the caretaker's wonderful melody has come to an end, i'll continue to cherish it until the end of time, (pun not intended). and to the folks reading this, may the ballroom forever remain eternal! c'est fini.

[@vikiv.1352]

Well, it's a nice music if you've been listening to dark ambient/experimental jazz before. It also has a deep idea and even the names of the parts are meaningful. A logical and emotional masterpiece

[@mikadosannoji553]

we like the caretaker because he showed our generation how bad memory loss is, his content is so unique that it can actually bring fascination and joy

[@StomachAcid]

I think The Caretaker's music is cool too! I even made some piano covers of his stuff on my channel.

[@mikadosannoji553]

@@StomachAcid seems cool ngl

[@aelecx9083]

Noo they changed their profile picture

[@tayzatun6351]

Damn, Friends Past Re-united be hitting different after Everywhere At The End Of Time

[@blandcore2773]

My man it hit right when I got it in 2002, now it feels like a perfect cycle of the project

[@shulmpino5505]

True.

[@billcipher4901]

The caretaker's music is definitely a hard listen that many won't find enjoyable, but if you can sit through it all, then it is really something else (and definitely worth it too)

[@N3NuK1]

It takes time, it needs to be chewed to be fully digestible; when The Caretaker found me, I tried to take the full Everywere At The End Of Time album in one sitting, couldnt finish it, there was something that I knew I was missing; now I feel that I can appreciate in a deeper form the music. At first it brought me someform of fear, now it brings me peace, silences my thoughts.

[@cheems0]

same

[@cheems0]

because i need to hear all caretaker albums and hear them back especially eateot

[@braydengui6809]

I absolutely have loved listening to this series. Even though my last album (TPAA) was just a lot of looping noises with little music to be seen. It is still such a physiologically moving experience.

[@paulj0557tonehead]

People just need to learn to trancelax. This society demands it! This is beautiful music in deep chill.

[@fl3820]

You may call “Friends Re-united” the most horrifying composition you've ever heard, but after listening to the “Home” it seems pretty calming.

[@arandomsupra]

After listening to M1 - Synapse Retrogenesis "Home" seems pretty calming

[@lordroy88]

I find it so beautiful

[@lordroy88]

I find it so beautiful

[@paintball7797]

@@arandomsupra After listening to L1 - Advanced Plaque Entanglements "M1 - Synapse Retrogenesis" seems pretty calming.

[@laughingmoose8067]

After Listening to “September 1939” L1 - Advanced Plaque Entanglements seems pretty calming

[@epicdude8742]

Spoiler warning. Friends Past Re-United is at the end of part 6 in Everywhere at the End of Time. Did anyone else find that beautiful?

[@simonhugo4893]

just noticed. The kirbyverse expands.

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

You can not escape the past is a remix Of the same track as well. More different edited version was first featured on memories from the haunted ballroom. Friends past reunited is the first time we get to hear the entire leitmotif is in this album. I believe the leitmotif stands for humanity's will to life on.

[@ohseespolice7419]

@@simonhugo4893 whoa did i just found a gizz fan in the wild

[@simonhugo4893]

@@ohseespolice7419 yeah but that's a detail. Every musician whose work is complex enough has their own 'verse ya know

[@donnaquixote7538]

@@jeremy5434 I cried when I listened the ending of six for the first time. It made me remember my grandfather, who also had the Alzheimer's.

[@techdeckdudes_]

cloudy since you went away is such a complete and total banger

[@Mr-wd2wn]

yesyesyesyesyesyes

[@tenten4940]

IT ISSSSS I WILL LISTEN TO THIS JUST FOR THAT TRACK 😻😻

[@hartenny]

home is the complete opposite

[@nerium.nerium]

I feel like this album would be a wonderful soundtrack to something written by Lovecraft.

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

(Giggles)

[@stevesmith5883]

I am going to re read a lot of Lovecraft in preparation for writing a MA dissertation heavily involving him. I'll defo try this out as a reading soundtrack.

[@nyctophile8365]

@@stevesmith5883 howd that go

[@sean..L]

One of the tracks is literally titled ‘Malign forces of the occult”.

[@fleurtalbot7596]

@@stevesmith5883 ...... I've spent years researching Lovecraft, lived by his houses in Providence.... yearly visits to his grave....Good luck with your reading and hope you can stay off the bandwagon of peeps who label him racist.... indeed he was not.... once you understand his psychology, upbringing and the times in which he lived. Best....xx

[@donnaquixote7538]

This is the perfect soundtrack when you feel a little blue and watch the darkening sky. It's summer so the twilight is quite gentle. Gotta listen to this during October and November, too...

[@brettclark3490]

It's spooky time, and tonight there will be a full blue moon in the United States, I love watching the sky and listening to caretakers, truly an underrated artist by the general public. (Posted on Halloween 2020)

[@suniscopper]

ESPECIALLY when Home plays at 35:55 ;)

[@gregoryfilin8040]

This is a bit more haunting than EATEOT. That had a soft start. This just throws you in. I feel like I'm switching between two sides: a person who is lost on earth from not having their beloved by them, and a person who is lost in the beyond, confused by being free. So friends reunited, is really that other person passing on, and those two finally finding each other.

[@user-jy8np7zx3z]

basically two ghosts of now passed away finally meeting?

[@gregoryfilin8040]

@@user-jy8np7zx3z Kinda yeah.

[@Melody-dn5zs]

I take this album as the horror of the person from EATEOT going to the afterlife realizing they can’t go back, everything they have lived before them is gonna get left behind and they can’t do anything about it. They finally remember a few of their memories but it’s when they have to leave them behind, they will always remember everything from their past life and as much as they want to go back, they can’t. It’s also partly people close to that person finding out about their death and dealing with the grief, the second to last track being named “Old friends reunited” could mean that the person from EATEOT reunited with a friend that had died or it could be a an old friend of the person from EATEOT going to their funeral, a friend who was forgotten by the person from EATEOT

[@MoRoKeiFrOd]

Cool!

[@mikadosannoji553]

EATEOT the epilogue

[@mccperin]

this may sound like a crazy concept idk but have u thought abt the fact not all of the caretaker's albums focus on dementia (only two do)? n that this album came way b4 the idea of giving the project alzheimer's?

[@assgoblin9937]

@@mccperin Actually, besides EATEOT, 3 other albums focus on memory loss. An Empty Bliss Beyond This World, Everywhere An Empty Bliss, and I forget the other one, but the album art looks like a snow globe.

[@lain7758]

Y'know, kids, just because you discover an artwork after another from the same author, doesn't mean one is strictly related to/comes directly after the other, and that everyone else should support your delusion.

[@BigNerdLandon]

I sat in an abandoned car and smoked while listening to the last track late at night and was one of the best experiences of my life

[@eac-ox2ly]

Date With an Angel is insanely disturbing. The sub-bass giant booms in the background are like death knocking at your door.

[@LuckasMS]

@@GANDEIA Som muito interessante pra dizer o mínimo, espero que um dia o algoritmo do KZbin te abençoe e você receba muitas views heheh, sucesso!

[@keinette9899]

and I loveee it!

[@dogf421]

i really like it. its incredibly dark and sad but it also has a calming and comforting tone. it feels like a hug from the grim reaper

[@SEiMEi_EXiSTS]

Date With An Angel... Of Death.

[@bensoncheung2801]

100 likes

[@donnaquixote7538]

I have listened Everywhere at the End of Time, An Empty Bliss... and "Take care. It's a desert out there...", and I really like this early work by Kirby as well. This is almost pure dark ambient and pretty pleasant to listen to (in comparison to stages 4 - 6 in EATEOT), although "Home" was pretty much a jumpscare on the first listen. It makes me think of Flowey from Undertale. xD I listened this through last night when I was falling asleep.

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

The music for the undertale au Help_tale was Initially inspired by the caretaker.

[@donnaquixote7538]

@@diegodankquixote-wry3242 Cool, didn't know that or that AU. Gotta check that out. (Y)

[@fugostrawberries]

I was reading this and was thought "home? whens that track coming" and then it played and I burst into shock 😂

[@kitma9]

im sorry but i burst out laughing at home

[@enzosg6404]

Im hearing Home right now and it feels like that Squimpus Mcgrimpus fnaf video with Chica

[@personwhoexists080]

When you hear Friends Past Re-united and you've also listened to Everywhere At The End Of Time Aaaaaaa

[@cheems0]

as a guy who heard it i can feel that

[@theahughes703]

38:00 - Friends Past Re-United is just truly heart-wrenching. My theory is, because this track is also played at the end of EATEOT, this whole album is a sequal to it; its about the dementia patient's experience in the afterlife, trying to let go of the trauma they went through when they were alive with alhzimer's/dementia. This track is a memory of when they had died; when their life flashed before their eyes, they had one last memory about a lifelong friend who had died before them. This track symbolizes that, in the afterlife, the dementia patient met this lifelong friend once again in the afterlife, and they are overjoyed to see eachother. Beautiful.

[@progect3548]

38:01*

[@keeperofthehammer6795]

This album was made before the caretaker started making dementia albums. Back when he made this is was just supposed to sound like a haunted ballroom. If anything, EatEoT is a sequel to THIS album.

[@p.terodactyl6848]

Fun fact: It's supposedly a recording of a church choir singing the "Laßt mich ihn nur noch einmal küssen" aria from Johann Sebasian Bach's Saint Luke Passion

[@SpectreCafe98]

In case you were not aware, EATEOT was described as The Caretaker itself developing dementia. Recalling a song from so early in its discography right at the end puts a horrible melancholy on the whole track.

[@finden3362]

My guy waited to die to date an angel lol

[@tayzatun6351]

I listened to this while reading a junji ito short manga and let me tell you, this shit syncs up so well, it's horrifying on a new level.

[@Jadeite427]

“We cannot escape the past” hits different after listening to “We are in the shadow of a distant fire.”

[@GOODLUCKMUSIC8]

Here's some ambient, meditative music, for those looking for something calm ENJOY ! :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/p2jYdmyIgtyYrdU

[@marzolaxo2456]

damn... you right man. We cannot escape the past is my favorite caretaker track without a doubt.

[@nottherealpaulsmith]

the second track reminds me of when i discovered my late grandfather's old jazz records, i'd just gotten the record player for christmas and was moving an old cabinet when i found whole boxes of them ended up sitting on my living room floor shuffling the 78 RPM singles onto and off of the spindle, i came to like harry james a lot after that i never got to meet larry, but my dad tells me we would've gotten along well

[@jerlome4467]

Even having listened to other caretaker albums I've never heard one that both relieves my anxiety and then worsens it in like 5 minute increments

[@PinkBowlerHat]

While many people bring the spotlight on tracks like Friends past-reunited or Cloudy, since you went away, nobody talks about Its all forgotten now. Its a haunting yet catchy track, with prehaps the most reverb ever applied to a caretaker track, period.

[@RollerCoasters62719]

I also like "Date With an Angel"

[@Gaia_Earth01]

I also don't hear people talking about on the edge of the breakdown or a stairway to the stars

[@_butter.]

Not even 23 minutes in and I've reached the bottom of the comment section. UPDATE: I just finished the Album, and holy crap was it amazing. Those last 2 songs hit *hard.*

[@shulmpino5505]

Friends past reunited hits HARD for me after listening to EATEOT

[@mohammedalbahi4595]

Best music to make an autopsy to.

[@Youveprobablyneverheardofit]

Mohammed Albahi accurate

[@theheretic9980]

yeah your own.

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

@@theheretic9980 bruh-huh? Epik own?!?! 🤔🤏🦞

[@joshlaclair2569]

How does one make an autopsy exactly? : )

[@microwavedsteak9308]

@@joshlaclair2569 buy a autopsy kit from the local Hobby Lobby or something.

[@tails183]

The Caretaker makes some good DnD ambience.

[@blandcore2773]

Oh also We Cannot Escape the Past is as perfect an album opener I have ever heard. Just incredible.

[@salami_lid7614]

once you’ve climbed a few steps, and climb some more, the first steps are no longer there. too late to go back down, too early to keep going.

[@campernocamping1]

It was a fall, the heaviness of his eyelids dragging him down into unconsciousness. He was so tired, but he knew, sleep would grant him no rest. Resting only ever granted him distress nowadays. Dreams were torment, a kaleidoscope of abstract memories. These reveries, scraps, only served to frighten him, forcing him to remember that he was forgetting. - An unfinished short story

[@GOODLUCKMUSIC8]

Here's some ambient, meditative music, for those looking for something calm ENJOY ! :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/p2jYdmyIgtyYrdU

[@guillemgalmesriera4017]

I just feel like my life is gonna end when the track does.

[@Youveprobablyneverheardofit]

I feel you

[@mikadosannoji553]

*auto loop*

[@sharkx8176]

everything that the caretaker (or/aka J. Leyland Kirby) made always hits different, calming yet unnerving

[@DramaticDetective]

This is what depression sounds like.

[@achromatopsium903]

more like derealization

[@logandupay9596]

My Third Favorite Album of 2001 as well as The Best Caretaker album in my humble opinion.

[@GOODLUCKMUSIC8]

Here's some ambient, meditative music, for those looking for something calm ENJOY ! :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/p2jYdmyIgtyYrdU

[@Janelane11]

perfect. sounds like Death's breath at my neck

[@MortyEXE-zh9bb]

I feel like the last track from EATEOT was you dying and seeing all the people you lost throughout your life waiting for you, and Friends Past Reunited is about your turn waiting for another relative's passing. Maybe that's why the one from the first album is more emphasized because you're the one who died and this one because it was someone else

[@LukarioSouls]

and a stairway to the stars are the two loved ones finally leaving this world and his memories and experiences replacing them with happiness and joy for being reunited again and to eternity

[@thecarebear2360]

I looove the first track!

[@cheems0]

It's you!

[@thehunkygodchrist7770]

The one and only

[@Dementia-Gaming938]

Bro I love EITBON

[@beyondobscure]

Would you look at that it's the man the myth the legend himself

[@Mr-wd2wn]

intelligent minds think alike I suppose

[@pollypocket1454]

I feel all his albums fit in a timline... I just need to figure out in what order

[@gameworld0612]

I know the protagonist is obsess with empty abandoned haunted ballrooms in his 20-40s than in his 40s to 60s he has amnasia but recovered than in his 80s -90s he gets Alzheimer’s and dies

[@enzosg6404]

I know this album talks about death and the ascension to heaven, the first songs being incomprehensible until A Stairway To The Stars that represents the ascension of the soul into heaven... And then there's Home...

[@LegacyCat386M]

@@enzosg6404 everywhere at the end of time being the dementia timeline.

[@rihud8343]

@@LegacyCat386M also aebbtw

[@lordroy88]

Let me try to do it: 01 Selected Memories From The Haunted Ballroom. The caretaker creates music based off of the 1930’s. 02 We’ll all go riding on a rainbow. The Caretaker goes dancing. 03 Patience (After Sebald) the caretaker is commissioned to write a movie soundtrack. 04 Theoretically pure anterograde amnesia. The caretaker gets amnesia. 05 deleted scenes forgotten dreams. The caretaker has strange dreams about his condition. 06 Persistent repetition of phrases. The caretaker’s amnesia worsens, and his Alzheimer’s comes to be. 07 an empty bliss beyond this world. The caretaker’s Alzheimer’s is more aware now and starts to lose his memories. 08 everywhere at the end of time. The caretaker’s mental decline leading to his eventual death. 09 Take care, it’s a desert out there. The caretaker is in the empty abyss of the afterlife. 10 A stairway to the stars. The caretaker goes to heaven.

[@_T048]

I feel like this is what lo-fi would sound like if it went through shell shock

[@jacksbackyardbbq4840]

This is an amazing description

[@Dementia-Gaming938]

Funny thing is, I can't stand lo-fi for some reason, but I can perfectly tolerate this.

[@ageves8487]

It's like I'm able to hold someone's hand, despite feeling alone and faced with my own emptiness. So very therapeutic and calming, awakening the parts of you that wanted to lay hidden, and didn't even know they were there. Melancholy, shocking, and turbulent at times, yet it remains cathartic. Beauty in the destruction. Kneeling before the void. Beautiful. I love The Caretaker.

[@CoyoteCoop]

I love how in 31:00 the echoes sometimes drown out the song

[@raphthebard1616]

The caretaker's music is so jarring an unnerving in the absolute best way. I like listening to it at night sometimes because its soothing. If you are reading this, I hope you have a lovely day and look after yourself, enjoy listening to this album

[@Cookie0927]

As someone whos a huge fan of ambience and spacey music, i love this album.

[@GOODLUCKMUSIC8]

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[@SgtDirtyBush4K]

idk if you listened to it already, but "Eager to Tear Apart the Stars" definitely has some sort a spacey feel to it That's if you haven't listened to it already xd

[@peb3446]

​@@SgtDirtyBush4KКосмоса нет.

[@gavinator.3587]

It feels like being sucked through the collective memories of an old box of records, each with it's own fading story destined for obscurity, each memory like a chewed up piece of gum stuck to the underside of a carved up desk. The more hope than desperation is put into a record one will find lyrics speaking to a soul but in the moments where others found or experienced meloncholy like being hit by a spouse or walked out on, the more they sit on that chord the more sour the experience becomes on each return as their feelings project on the deterioration of the record, but joy can still be found in the same track as there is a moment of Euporaia when hearing a sax you danced to with your aging mother. But some negative emotions become so layered upon and so unanimous that no one can experience a peace with what has been imprinted in from all thos negative experiences and emotions that have managed to find their way into that record. No one can listen to it. It is marked over with the blood of murders. The witness of multiple jumps, Hangings, and unspeakable suicides. And anyone who is in the moment can feel it because it has been imprinted from all ends with Dread.

[@devilbhrothesavage2807]

Thats hauntology for you!

[@jamesdeavin7457]

I always assumed it was named 'The Caretaker' after Jack Torrance's occupation in The Shining. Been listening The Caretaker for years after finding it with "Midnight, the Stars and You".

[@Youveprobablyneverheardofit]

It's really possible since there is sometimes a light music playing in the background in Shining as in the Caretaker's work.

[@hexmaniac]

The Caretaker is named after The Shining, yes. Leyland Kirby actually composed the soundtrack for a documentary about The Shining called Room 237.

[@evabowan]

what makes you say that? there's no mention of him in the soundtrack credits?

[@alice_evermore]

I instantly thought the same thing: Jack Torrance from The Shining "You've always been The Caretaker".....especially with the eerie, haunting old jazz and swing music that echoes through some of Leyland Kirby's compositions.

[@experi-mentalproductions5358]

@@evabowan en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_237 "Music by: blah blah blah blah The Caretaker blah blah"

[@iesusdesus5704]

35:54 home is definitely my favorite track

[@Gaia_Earth01]

Mine is 42:48, because it feels like if you were freed from the previous songs

[@JvdasMichael]

I thought this would be a cool Caretaker album to listen too but I'm sobbing again because of Friends Past Reunited

[@JeffNixonComedy]

Honestly, a very good album to lift weights to. For the home gym crowd, in particular.

[@PaulBenjaminJenkins]

Jeez, how many albums does he have Friends Past Reunited on? So far I count: Selected Memories..., Stairway to the Stars, and of course the end of Everywhere at the End of Time. Probably only rivaled by Libet's Delay, ha.

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

That's it for best boi song. Unless its hidden on other tracks. The choir in the later parts of Careful its a Desert Out There might be sampled from freinds past reuinted.

[@youtubeisevil]

4 or 5, haha

[@owen2333]

@@youtubeisevil 6

[@boxecomp1374]

It's on Museum of Garden History, and Deleted Scenes Forgotten Dreams.

[@suniscopper]

This album's version oddly was the only one that made me cry. Man.

[@henryjames8535]

So I was on my own last week in an old hotel in a quiet street in Paris. It was drizzly out and grey, I was possibly the only guest down this long stretch of what I will call the Overlook Hotel. I was playing the Caretaker off my phone speakers. It was actually both blissful and eerie.

[@helpmyass]

When the last track begins to swell I can't help but get teary eyed

[@viva3401]

Same, at first, I was in it for the first and penultimate tracks, but damn did the title track grow on me. It's gorgeous.

[@whyis2plus2]

A Fulfillment Beyond This Empty Bliss

[@whyis2plus2]

Thank you for giving my comment a heart.

[@sugahtank]

I love Leyland Kirby for all these amazing soundscapes

[@GHOSTLOVINGTOAST]

I listened to a whole lot of the caretaker in 6th grade. I’m pretty sure I listened to the caretakers entire discography. Even though it’s only been 2 years since then I feel nostalgic every time I listened to the caretaker. I was a very lonely kid back then but I was happy being alone. 6th grade was just the foreshadowing of my true mental decline in 7th. (I’m okay mentally now. I have social problems and I always think of the bad side of things which made me very shy, scared, and quite towards the real world. It’s all because of the things I’ve seen and learned about this world. I’ve seen gore which really shooked me up for a bit and my fate in god was dissipating. I’m better now but I still have problems thinking positively and talking to people.) I think the reason why the caretaker is so nostalgic for me is because how much I’ve changed as a person from back then. If any of y’all guys have any mental problems don’t be afraid to talk to an honest person. My friend (who goes as Driddd online) told me I was being emo cause I was always thinking of the bad things in life. After that I realized my mental problems and I talked to him about it. Now I’m in a much better place mentally than before. Everyone, take care. Cause it’s a desert out there.

[@hexmaniac]

I really wish Leyland would reissue or even press his older works on vinyl

[@blandcore2773]

I loved V/Vm and everything they have done. This was a side job but was intrigued enough to buy at the time. So glad | did, timeless horror. Wish my grandad could have heard it somehow

[@gavinator.3587]

I share a lot of the Caretaker discography with my grandmother and she enjoys it just as much as I do... I think not as much the nuances of memory but enjoys the blissful, atheral coats over audio she shares real memories with.

[@blandcore2773]

I remember being into v/vm really hard at university and buying this on a whim when it came out as it seemed interesting. No idea how much of an impact it would have on me now and ever since. This is truly a classic and it is a word that is thrown around far too lightly now. Lets all raise a glass and step up to the oche for Mr Kirby.

[@kayleighwyatt8737]

Does anyone know the original track for "Friends Past Re-United"? This album is simply stunning, but that part is simply sublime.

[@Youveprobablyneverheardofit]

The answer by the Master himself ( J. Leyland Kirby ) : " It's from a private recording I have on vinyl from the 1960's that one, so will only be in an edition of less than 50 copies given to the choir that performed the piece. Luckily I found it in a shop probably in the late 90's. I have two of them but the rest are impossible to find. "

[@jamesdeavin7457]

It's my favorite Caretaker track. There are two versions, I believe. It's incredible.

[@Rhademanthus]

32:17 is the sound I've been searching for to characterize the mood of the last two days

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

@@jamesdeavin7457 3 versions, -4 If you count be careful it's a desert out there.- I think its just a random quoir in that album

[@wormswithteeth]

@@Youveprobablyneverheardofit Did he say what the actual piece is called and who it's by??

[@tayzatun6351]

Damn the earlier works of Mr. Caretaker is an experience on its own, the production and manipulation of samples was just more jarring and simply frightening, however, it didn't quite depict the exact kind of fear dementia would give you. More just horror as Stephen King would describe it. The unnatural.

[@donnaquixote7538]

Just started to listen to this in the night after the summer solstice. Perfect music for the turning point; the days will be getting shorter again...

[@cheems0]

i heared eateot at night now this at night i guess listening to caretaker albums at night is perfect for me

[@occhiocchiocchio]

Everytime i listen to this album i find myself looking down, as if my body isn't ready to take the step for the stairway forward, and doesn't allow me to even look at it

[@theclaydercobbler]

I cannot get over the intro to this album. Literally feels like I'm floating.

[@julesgarcia2533]

This feels like the pain that the children and family members went through upon the subjects death in Every where at the end of time

[@takeoutcentral]

the shift from each day doesn't lead to a tomorrow to home is horrifyingly fascinating

[@Hejoam]

I think this is a sequel to EaTEoT after the album died of dementia

[@danestambaugh255]

I think so too. While in EATOT we're living through an individual with dementia, this feels like living through someone who was close to that person coming to terms with their death and the grief and sorrow that comes with that

[@logan_2]

This album was made in 2002 but EaTEoTW was completed in 2019

[@sometree2744]

@@logan_2 maybe it's a pre equal, or preequal, or prequal, or pre-equal, or whatever!

[@logan_2]

some tree it’s spelled prequel

[@boog7214]

the companion album to EaTEoT is Everywhere, an empty bliss

[@juancanekortegasanchez7961]

It's like an old memory, like when I was a kid and played metroid prime for the first time, so life changing.

[@MoRoKeiFrOd]

This album is my therapy session.

[@kanfor]

Perfect music when you are waiting in the dentist. Thanks.

[@account9533]

this album was released the year and month i was born, may 2002

[@0ContentDeleted0]

Here is my ranking of all the tracks from best to worst 1: Emptiness This track is hauntingly beautiful, and probably one of my favorite Caretaker songs. 2: Friends past reunited It’s like the last minutes of stage 6 but with more reverb, it honestly sounds better that way. 3: Date with an Angel This song is kinda sad but beautiful in a way, the name of the track is also very interesting. 4: A stairway to the stars This track feels like ascending to heaven after you die, it’s really beautiful. 5: We can not escape the past This track is just…heavenly, but also kind of dreadful. 6: It’s all forgotten now This was used in The Shining, so it’s cool to see it appear in this album. 7: Robins and roses It sounds weird (probably because it’s in reverse) but not in a creepy nor dreadful way, it’s pretty nice. 8: On the edge of breakdown I love how the track starts out very dark and eerie, and then starts to sound heavenly at the end. 9: Cloudy, since you went away Weird and kind of creepy, but not bad 10: Each today doesn’t lead to a tomorrow I like it because it sampled “Atmospheres” from 2001 a space odyssey, another famous Stanley Kubrick film. 11: Consigned to a yesterday It’s like a really dark ambient track, but not that great when compared to the rest of the album. 12: Masquerade ball It just sounds weird…that’s all. 13: Home The singing sounds so weird (not in a creepy way) and it just doesn’t fit the tone of the album, but it was used in the Shining so that’s a plus. 14: Malign forces of the Occult Very loud and obnoxious, which destroys the atmosphere the rest of the tracks were building up, easily the worst track.

[@TheSpadeStealer_98]

It's All Forgotten Now sounds like a Stage 3 track...

[@0ContentDeleted0]

@@TheSpadeStealer_98 it does remind me of stage 3 tracks like “Sublime Beyond Loss”, so you’re not the only one who thinks that.

[@johndoe-qb1fq]

His best album by far

[@redbon8918]

This is the album I like the most from the caretaker because of many reasons. It uses music that is church organ, choir, ballroom, and even film scores. The music choices and the way that they are portrayed is perfect with massive reverb, extreme slowness, and pitch effects straight out of hell itself. And how a stairway to the stars, Its all forgotten now, we have been here before, and friends past re-united appear in other albums. In my opinion the best caretaker album in the ballroom triliogy and the second best caretaker album ever only losing to EATEOT Stage 3 Not to mention the grand appearence of Friends-past reunited!

[@CTstardust]

I find it ironic how "consigned to a yesterday"'s sample "a song of sunshine" sounds pretty unnerving, idk if its just the booming, but the organ just sounds creepy.

[@dr.sebastion9305]

Home is absolutely terrifying.

[@electricplugproductions2640]

The first track is a very slowed down version of the german Lent hymn “Ah, Holy Jesus”, one of my favorites. I wonder what the original sample is, unless Kirby himself made the music?

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

Does this mean freinds past reuinted is as "Ah, Holy jesus" as well?

[@electricplugproductions2640]

I don’t think so...the tune is different. Maybe he heavily remixed one track to have different melodies?

[@boog7214]

according to Kirby, the sample for friends past reunited is from a private recording of Lord let me know mine end in an edition of less than 50 copies, and he has two of them

[@Jadeite427]

Hey there ElectricPlugProductions. I’m part of the sample finding team and, while your observations regarding the first track’s melody is true, we would really appreciate it if you could also help us identify the melody to “On the edge of breakdown.” It appears to be from the same choir (same record) so once we have the melody to both tracks, it would help unlock many more samples (such as samples used in “Deleted scenes / forgotten dreams.” If you don’t know, that’s okay, but we’re hoping that maybe you could be more knowledgeable in “St Matthew Passion” and help us.

[@Thereviewer-lg6yr]

The sample is a rendition of Bach's Saint Luke Passion, recorded by a choir in England in the 1960s, not much info is known other than that

[@gregoryfilin8040]

What's interesting is how this piece is Dated May 2002. Was this your inspiration for Everywhere at the End of Time? Its haunting, but it isn't as brutally polished as the that piece. And EatEoT was absolutely phenomenal. A true masterpiece.

[@florytail]

Robins And Roses is just perfect. aaah want it much longer...........

[@xaviergolestani3574]

um just got to friends past reunited uh THIS iS THE MUSIC AT THE END OF EVERYWHERE AT tHE END OF TIIIMMMEEEEE

[@DemRise1999]

Probably the most lovely sounds of the early Caretaker, and also his most emotional work, Selected memories felt crazy and demented at times, full of noises that disturb the listener, WAGROAR feels really hollow at times, as if it was more decrepit version of the souls that roamed, but in this album it seems like whatever that damned place has inside is finally releasing all the energy into the cosmos, finally freed into the infinity, if this was the actual ending of the trilogy it wouldn't surprise me

[@ithinkiamlostareyoulostasw1971]

I feel blessed, cause' even when life gets really hard to stand every morning. There's little gifts to our deep likes. The Caretaker for example has been a friend and trust me, you can chill to them music & travel, without caring for some of the disgrace out there. Thank u. 💯😎

[@jelly2012]

Easily one of my top 5 favorite albums to ever exist. Absolutely incredible.

[@baconinvader]

This feels like the midpoint between the old ambient "spooky" caretaker style, and the newer more nostalgic style

[@TheGreenPig321]

Well this is certainly… unique

[@julianharvey7870]

0:00 walking in the woods alone

[@Lecotatuta]

like that one roblox arg?

[@julianharvey7870]

​@@Lecotatuta I didn't know there was an arg about it

[@ReitaSugoi]

Hermoso album, el mejor de The Caretaker

[@user-idjw8qpd2je]

The album is pure genius, I'm grateful to know something so noble.

[@SpaceGuyTDG810]

What I think of each song: We Cannot Escape the Past - Dark cathedral music Cloudy Since you Went Away - Sounds like some very beaten up piano Emptiness - More dark cathedral music Consigned to a Yesterday - A ventilation shaft, or a portal to the underworld Masquerade Ball - I don't even know how to describe it Malign Forces of the Occult - A pipe organ in a heavily reverberated room On the Edge of Breakdown - Even more dark cathedral music Robins & Roses - Sounds like some bliss right off the bat Date with an Angel - pure creepy It's all Forgotten Now - H1 Layer 2 moment Each Today Doesn't Lead to a Tomorrow - More ventilation shaft Home - An alien singing Friends Past Reunited - R1 Layer 3 moment A Stairway to the Stars - Minecraft music (I think)

[@ErikWilliamsviolin]

"Stairway to the stars" is originally Meditation from Thais.

[@hydrodoxxed2]

If you are speaking about the last track “Stairway to the stars”, then from what i remember it sampled a track that also goes by the name of “Stairway to the stars”. Might be wrong though.

[@thecarebear2360]

It's "A stairway to the stars" by Jesse Crawford

[@cheems0]

@@thecarebear2360 wow i found you again

[@murdahorse]

A real journey and beautiful ending

[@FastFoxx82]

Like revisiting the future....