The Caretaker - Everywhere At The End Of Time - Stage 6 (FULL ALBUM)

Everywhere at the end of time - Stage 6
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Stage 6
Post-Awareness Stage 6 is without description
00:00:00 - O1 - Stage 6 A confusion so thick you forget forgetting
00:21:53 - P1 - Stage 6 A brutal bliss beyond this empty defeat
00:43:29 - Q1 - Stage 6 Long decline is over
01:04:39 - R1 - Stage 6 Place in the World Fades away

[@kingdedede8064]

Blue Tape is used in home inspections to mark areas that are incomplete or need repair.

[@erm_ok]

it's the back of a picture frame.

[@user-nl2tc9to7s]

@@erm_ok that too

[@bella_ciao4608]

I think it’s just painter’s tape? To represent the blank canvas that is the caretaker’s mind?

[@anthonyb1375]

@@bella_ciao4608 that’s what I was thinking

[@ghdhfgh6125]

The picture doesn’t represent anything, it’s just an album cover that was designed by a friend of the composers’. However there are lots of opinions about what the pictures mean to you

[@aidanpeet4563]

And now it's time for 'Silly Songs with Larry', the part of the show where Larry comes out and sings a Silly Song

[@yunglettuce2906]

ousta

[@samhill2874]

Dude

[@Yamisage94]

Needed this laugh so much rn

[@breckon2684]

Larry the cucumber comes out with his mic and just sits, staring at the camera, with a deadpan face, as over the course of an hour and a half he becomes blurrier and less like Larry the cucumber.

[@squidkidsyoutube3712]

I might need one of those.

[@VY_Canis_Majoris]

Everyone says that the end represents the person's funeral, but I personally think it's terminal lucidity, a moment lasting minutes or hours right before death where an unexpected return of mental clarity, memory, or suddenly regained consciousness occurs. Then the minute of silence is the person actually being dead.

[@spicyfriedfries]

damn, imagine being able to remember again and being so happy that your memories are still intact...then you die.

[@vibrantgleam]

@@spicyfriedfries Actually the paitient wouldn't know anything they've been through, they'll act like nothing has happened.

[@i_am_anxious0247]

@@spicyfriedfries sometimes terminal lucidity lasts much longer periods of time. It can last days in some cases, weeks in others, and in the luckiest of cases it lasts entire months and the patients are able to go home before they die. For reference; around 50% of people that get terminal lucidity get it the day they die, 40% get it between a day and a week before death, and 10% get a week or more.

[@certified_freak]

@@i_am_anxious0247 I heard someone said that some guy had terminal lucidity last for almost a year. Don’t know how factual that is but oh well.

[@furiousstudios4438]

YOU RIGHT

[@_Ghxst]

46:15 definitely one of the most melancholy yet beautiful sounds in the entire album. those 3 notes are my favorite part of this entire stage...

[@lore963]

Same

[@lessthanthreemetal]

It's hope. Like your inner child

[@backroomscataloger]

This Tune is also in stage 5 N1

[@i_am_secretly_uncool]

@@backroomscataloger yeah but it’s a different sample

[@candlelight20]

@@backroomscataloger it’s not it’s just another sample with a similarity

[@hungerphobia]

My grandfather died of Alzheimer's. He was in a home, and couldn't remember anyone in the family. My grandmother continued to live in her home, alone, stubborn and would visit him every day. She fell sick, she said it was just a cold. It wasn't just a cold, she had gotten pneumonia, and in my grandfathers last stage of Alzheimer's, this stage of the album, we visited him after grandmother passed away. Before we could get a word in, when we entered, he was ecstatic, he said she came to visit him in the night, through the window, she came in and put their favourite record on and they danced the night away. They tried to interject to explain what happened but he just said, "I know". He passed away not a week after that, he was silent since that moment, and I think he went away with her that following night. This album, all I hear are ocean waves, but not on a tropical beach, but in the middle of an ocean, and your arms are getting tired and you're forgetting how to kick and float and breathe.

[@angel8165]

What a calming yet horrid response, may they rest in peace ❤️

[@morning_star8230]

im sorry but reading this terrifies me

[@bella_ciao4608]

Do you believe he experienced terminal lucidity?

[@supremecud147]

i hope they are dancing every night away in heaven, may they have had a peaceful life

[@TheCSJones]

@@bella_ciao4608 No other explanation for it. The rallying stage.

[@SAM_ARTHUR_CL0VVNDOLL]

Post-Awareness Stage 6 is without description.

[@the_moist]

Post-Awareness Stage 6 is without description.

[@arturomelendez7262]

Post-Awareness Stage 6 is without description.

[@TunaminV1]

Post-Awareness Stage 6 is without description.

[@properlyoiled661]

Post-Awareness Stage 6 is without description.

[@AlastorTheNPDemon]

Post-Awareness Stage 6 is without description.

[@unitedrepublicofegg6611]

This series had better "character" development than most games

[@Lacter12]

development backwards

[@ortherner]

@@Lacter12 tru

[@finden3362]

More like undevelopment

[@justlukeunlimited1545]

Negative character arcs are a thing.

[@combineadvisorwithinternet6040]

First it develops, then it stops developing, then it develops backwards, and then it stops developing again, then the said "character" dies.

[@FelixHawthorne]

The freakiest thing about this album is that it's completely different when you're depressed. The feel of it is...oddly comforting. Like you've lost the fight, and all that's left to do is sit in a wasteland, be it a mental or physical one. All you can do is sit still. The comfort stems from the feeling that despite the fact that you lost, you're not having to suffer anymore. You're not struggling against the tide like you just did. You're just....still. Quiet.

[@anth636]

Relatable

[@hooviridis8388]

It feels like you have no will left to fight, but not even enough will to bring about your own end. All you can do is just lay there... hoping for an end to everything... But you eventually just give up on hoping and wishing and your mind just becomes empty like a void, completely unaware of the world around you... Only intervention from an outside force will be your saving grace.

[@jojostwin2492]

I’m so sorry you guys re experiencing this. There are people here for you. Don’t be afraid to communicate and talk with then. Express yourself, if you ever need to talk I’m here also.

[@robbiehasasd4557]

Another commenter said it best. “Music is best when it can comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”

[@DJDustKut]

During one of my worst days, I listened to this. Pretty much the perfect soundtrack to the pain I was feeling.

[@Feldup]

I just don't want to be alone...

[@psychogirly910]

Feldup As long as you stay lucid, you are only alone if you choose to be. For example, if you are lucid enough to answer my reply, it is your choice to answer me or not ^^ hang in there, we are in this together. Everyone who has been through those 6 hours.

[@grxsspxrt]

Les dernières minutes sont excellentes

[@psychogirly910]

Ehos_525 14:38 quand cette note retentit, je m’y accroche, comme le patient qui s’accroche à l’ombre d’un morceau de souvenir, probablement déformé, assombri, innaccessible.

[@truebagel8368]

I got the same feeling too.

[@nightshiftts]

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[@IladRodavlas]

This is genuinely the scariest and most threatening music I have ever listened to. It sounds like an old jazz record died and decided to haunt my dreams. Amazing how terrifying this project can convey this story.

[@pablogarcia6188]

The guy who made this just took 60s song albums and made them distorted which is why it the audience such a strange feel

[@adriand6883]

Anyone know what music was used starting around 1:20:00ish?

[@adriand6883]

Boxecomp, is it this (about 21 minutes and 20 seconds in)? kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXTMcqSQodiHmqs

[@aussenn4915]

But at the same time it’s not edgy

[@hirotrum6810]

@@pablogarcia6188 60s was when the rock age started! These samples sound way too old for that

[@roiroije6326]

1:11:06 is an underrated moment. It just feels like... sitting on a beach at the end of the world, watching a great, blinding white light slowly beginning to engulf the very earth.

[@faye_isc]

i think otherwise. 1:19:38 your soul, YOU , finally give up fighting the illness , at that silent break . - And then the 5 minutes of Angels aka clarity / terminal lucidity starts when you regain yourself for a short period of time , like a soul resurrection. like remembering hearing or the smells around you . etc etc. - But it's too late , because of the damage the illness caused to your body. - After you enjoy the last moments of "remembering" , you forget the last thing remained to be forgotten. Breathing. And then you forget it. And you die , the second time , for good.

[@cindychoo7]

It's almost as if your place in the world fades away…

[@VANILLAZILLA]

Still underrated. Its absouletely breathtaking even being only a few chords.

[@someth1ngstupid]

The image itself feels incomplete. it feels too empty. And that's genius.

[@RiceWitch-dingus-400]

It's meant to be the back of canvas, there is something important on it..

[@paintball7797]

@@RiceWitch-dingus-400 Before, we were seeing the painting on the front of the canvas, now.. we're seeing the back.

[@RiceWitch-dingus-400]

@@paintball7797 yes

[@colemartin6969]

Said painting is rolled. What is in the paper?

[@bakedbrownie69]

@@RiceWitch-dingus-400 i didn't realise that. damn, that's depressing, but a really clever metaphor

[@employee4272]

Everyone says they see the last few minutes as a last memory, or last moment of lucidity. But I personally hear it as the end of the line for the sufferer- and a choir of angels welcoming them home.

[@acydforever6877]

To some, these two are similar. One might see these last moments of lucidity as true freedom, seeing that choir of angels to me the sound of confusion coming to welcome them. Rather than approach that with pain, it’s acceptance and bliss- a feeling of freedom within that loss of control

[@b0ltun0]

if slowly "falling asleep" has a soundtrack, it would be that thing in the last 5 minutes

[@somekid8311]

to me it sounds like the music version of a baby crying

[@skippersthepenguin3591]

I also think it could be funeral music because the person is now dead, same thing but it makes more sense as if it was angels it would be a bit more happier music.

[@pianojay5146]

A requiem, for sort.

[@2lexander]

Okay so this is hilarious. I was about 20 minutes into this album while driving and out of nowhere it went completely silent. Considering how many times songs got cut off in this album series, I just assumed it was part of it and sat in silence for 30 seconds until I realized someone was calling me... That's why it went silent. Also, whatever you do, please don't listen to stages 4-6 while driving. It's dangerous.

[@restfulflames9855]

Fuck that would make me want to vear off to the right and crash

[@Thorin-MattfromGO]

6 is just ambience so it’d be fine. 4 and 5 though...

[@unapinarandomdelinternet3568]

The tears Will block your vision ;-;

[@limemaid2003]

@@restfulflames9855 same. ok but fuck you for this being so funny

[@woodenhoe]

@@Thorin-MattfromGO 1:19:41 tho

[@Nosfera22]

I love that, despite the complete mental degradation at this stage, there is still the occasional pang of the music we've been hearing throughout the rest of the album. They're very brief, and mostly drowned out by the foggy static. Instead of being the memories that the patient is trying to cling onto, now the music is more like a sudden blip of nostalgia or deja vu. It's no longer the feeling of "I want to remember" that we had in 2-4, now the music is just "that seems familiar... oh well"

[@LeafMusic05]

I feel like this represents the theory that the memories are still there, the dementia is just the slow decline of you being able to access them.

[@theperfectburger9892]

This stage does so and represents the point of complete impossibility of doing so and how now memories can’t function

[@thestranger7905]

I like how at 35:58 the samples like gradations at arm's length and more samples of N1 appear. It's like the patient is going back in time and is suffering through that craziness from stage 5 once again.

[@Conman3407-cjo]

These samples heard are actually not supposed to be referencing N1, but rather L1. P1 is basically a more calmed down version of L1. This is also section C, and section C of L1 plays the same samples

[@josephsullivan5830]

@@Conman3407-cjo. L1 is still stage 5! P1 is just calmer stage 5...as if in a...Stage...4...

[@mantra3000]

Don't file under easy listening.

[@maryfreebed9886]

The most difficult listening of all, rather. Uneasy listening?

[@nonamegonzalez5711]

Are you not at ease?

[@vic5254]

@@maryfreebed9886 i wouldn't say *the* most difficult. it's emotional dark ambient, but there's much more uncomfortable-sounding projects.

[@maryfreebed9886]

@@nonamegonzalez5711 God no. I made the mistake of falling asleep with this playing once. It wasn't twuzzly at all.

[@JustChadC]

Lol. File under, "hard listening."

[@maryfreebed9886]

The higher brain functions have already vanished, and it is the bodily functions themselves which are now being stripped away.

[@deeznutshahaha]

the shell is slowly being washed away

[@maryfreebed9886]

@@deeznutshahaha The shell has already been washed away. It is the things that were inside the shell that are now disappearing.

[@deeznutshahaha]

@@maryfreebed9886 But surely the shell is referencing the body and its bodily functions? I've worked at carehomes and currenlty on wards i can sadly I say end stage dementia patients are just shells of people and the shell is the last thing to go ergo death. I'm not being pedantic on purpose i just enjoy debating this subject.

[@5nbome114]

I feel like at this point they're basically a vegetable at the start

[@Anyo92]

Yeah, trapped in their own bodies

[@cosmic6478]

The last minute at 1:24:58 represents the last minute of silence after their death or in funeral which just got me so terrified and impressed due to them even having the idea to include this

[@dante_hope]

According to you.

[@faye_isc]

i think otherwise. 1:19:38 your soul, YOU , finally give up fighting the illness , at that silent break . - And then the 5 minutes of Angels aka clarity / terminal lucidity starts when you regain yourself for a short period of time , like a soul resurrection. like remembering hearing or the smells around you . etc etc. - But it's too late , because of the damage the illness caused to your body. - After you enjoy the last moments of "remembering" , you forget the last thing remained to be forgotten. Breathing. And then you forget it. And you die , the second time , for good.

[@johnlocsin1628]

It makes sense that Stage 6 wouldn’t have a description because, by completely forgetting everything, we wouldn’t even know what it’s description is. It’s all just... gone

[@PaulBenjaminJenkins]

If Caretaker makes a comeback and puts out one more album, I hope he calls it Kirby's Dream World.

[@goatalpha8645]

the best commentary

[@bochen1079]

Bruh

[@gerbilpmc]

this album isn’t even that old, what do you mean comeback?

[@sunther8041]

Nathan C I think this is supposedly caretaker’s final album, as in he won’t be making any more. Might be wrong though.

[@vic5254]

@@gerbilpmc yeah, this is supposedly caretaker's final album. maybe the artist behind it is choosing a new moniker?

[@Gy0952]

I don't like to do things anymore

[@breckon2684]

Hmmmm... How do you have 1.87K subscribers but your videos get like 20-30 views each?

[@MarineSelena]

1955 Ford Thunderbird what ???

[@breckon2684]

@@MarineSelena If you go on NNN CCC's channel, he has 1.87 thousand subscribers, but his videos honly get about 20 to 30 views each.

[@kryptickandy7670]

1955 Ford Thunderbird Why does that matter though?

[@breckon2684]

@@kryptickandy7670 because it is suspicious, considering that if he has that many subscribers, that he should get views that correlate to his subscribers, give or take.

[@funnychimp7738]

As somebody who’s family has a history of dementia, I listen to this sometimes to try and come to peace with the fact that this will likely end up happening to me, I’ll slowly forget, no matter what I try, but I’m not going to die a senile old man, I’m gonna fight fate, not for me, but for those who I know. Necesse est finis

[@YellowSabre]

Beautiful

[@themonarch9442]

This is the saddest comment ive seen in a while i hope they come up with a cure before you or i ever even have the chance to contract this awful illness

[@aarons0z992]

There's a lot of things you can do to prevent getting alzheimers early on

[@thestar1755]

If you end up not having dementia, then your kids will be saved too.

[@nathanjohnpalaogaming4872]

@@themonarch9442 remove plaque reinvent string

[@Gemidori]

If this had a description Post-Awareness Stage 6 marks the end of all feeling and ability. Memories do not exist, neither do motion or words. A cold calmness leers over the empty mind. Silence and bliss become one until the end, although very rarely a rally could occur before post-mortem.

[@xaviertyack5640]

My grandfather died of alzheimers, at the time I didn't understand what was happening to him, but now I'm crying wishing I had made more of an effort to communicate with him rather than be afraid of his deterioration, he was a brilliant proffesor at an esteemed college, but I can only hope he didn't suffer as his world fell apart.

[@vernie_in_hell]

if it's any consolation, a lot of the time they're too unaware to suffer. he probably just felt... normal

[@clamsclams]

@@vernie_in_hellNot normal, but he wasn't aware there was anything. He forgot everything, and as the title of the first song in stage six suggests, you forget you forgot, meaning you don't know a world other. It is more terrifying from an outside view. They suffer from stage one to three, but then forget everything.

[@tCoL_corp]

his place in the world (will) fade away...its up to YOU to keep it from fading completely

[@ohnoohyeah3205]

I figured out with my grandpa that writing stuff down for him to read worked better than talking... for a while.

[@vibrantgleam]

@@clamsclams That's terrifying.

[@askgeminiandfriendshooray5612]

I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought. - Egon Spengler

[@samtinkle9076]

You say rational thought *Giggles without memories”

[@Lucy1606...]

A confusion so Thick you forget forgetting 0:00 O1 A confusion so Thick you forget forgetting 4:06 O2 Sinking Capabilities 11:45 O3 Last Visible Lucidity 14:38 O4 An Empty Bliss Forgetting 16:55 O5 Notes of Forced Struggles 17:55 O6 Silent Waves of Forgetfulness A Brutal Bliss Beyond This Empty Defeat 21:51 P1 Irritating Alarms 31:41 P2 A Brutal Bliss Beyond This Empty Defeat 35:58 P3 Isolated Dusk 40:00 P4 An Unbearable Despair Long Decline is Over 43:27 Q1 Silent Reality 46:15 Q2 Fading Delays 51:07 Q3 Deafening Silence 55:55 Q4 A Void So Spacious As Space Itself 59:00 Q5 Long Decline is Over 1:01:41 Q6 An Empty Hope Giving Bliss Place in the world fades away 1:04:38 R1 A Void Full of Emptiness 1:07:31 R2 A Light At The End of This Tunnel 1:09:59 R3 An Unknown Hope 1:14:08 R4 Disappearing Mind 1:18:46 R5 An Endless Staircase 1:19:40 R6 A Place In the World Fades Away 1:24:55 R7 Moment of Silence.

[@theoneandonlynutzley1946]

I actually really like this description

[@richardsouk4374]

I'd just go straight for 0:00 O1 An empty void 4:27 O2 A realm so empty it is full 9:28 O3 A confusion so thick you forget forgetting 12:27 O4 Empty spaces 15:53 O5 Present time incomprehensible 18:34 O6 Cold wind blowing 21:51 P1 The terminated 25:32 P2 An empty bliss 29:07 P3 A brutal bliss beyond this empty defeat 34:56 P4 The last of the agony 39:55 P5 Forgetting everything Unfinished

[@amongussus3am]

R6 can be Friends Past Reunited

[@PIFEIGENBAUM.]

wdym with last visible lucidity?

[@Lucy1606...]

@@PIFEIGENBAUM. i dont know what i said

[@BeyondBaito]

That artist who painted himself every year as his state declined from Alzheimer's i only made more horrifying when you find out he kept a journal where he'd try to write basic sentences and the last couple of scribbles were "I can't read or write"

[@kimjongunsucksbooty750]

his name is william utermohlen

[@vibrantgleam]

That's scary because he's aware but that will eventually be swallowed by the void. Forgetting that you're forgetting and you have no awareness left in you.

[@invalid_user_handle]

The final stage of Dementia is when there's nothing left. The memories are still there but you can't get to them. You can't remember your family, how to read or write, your name, your age, how to speak, how to walk. Your mind is empty, because there's nothing to think about. You can't even understand what's happening around you, what you're seeing and hearing. It all looks and sounds like static, as your brain can't make out the signals your eyes and ears are feeding you. It's too abstract for your mind to comprehend. At this point, you may as well be brain-dead. You might already *_be_* brain-dead. Sometimes, something breaks through the broken neurons, and you remember something. But these moments of clarity are short and uncommon. Most of the time, you're relegated to a vegetable-like state. The only thing you have left is the lower body functions, like breathing and keeping a heartbeat. But you'll eventually forget how to do that, too. Through all this, there still might be a bit of a subconscious mind that hasn't yet dissolved into nothing. This part of your mind, you may not be aware of it, knows the nightmare is almost over. This brings you peace.

[@leafyclass]

finish this piece plss

[@Ins0mniBat]

Terminal lucidity, rally before death or end-of-life rally, refers to an unexpected return of mental clarity and memory, or suddenly regained consciousness that occurs in the time shortly before death in patients suffering from severe psychiatric or neurological disorders.

[@clwhi4736]

BatBoi If I saw someone close to me with dementia dying and they suddenly recall who I was and the people around them moments before death, that would be the most terrifying moment of my life.

[@soniceverhate9179]

@@clwhi4736 why is it terrifying? it's a blessing

[@GalaxyPolar]

@@soniceverhate9179 it's terrifying because you realize you're litterally watching someone about to die in a moment. Their death is certain and it's here and right now, and you're about to witness it. That's what's terrifying. The dementia patient isn't aware of it, but you are.

[@mattb7409]

1:19:40 This is what I imagine dying feels like, everything just stops all at once, it gave me genuine goosebumps all over the first time I heard it.

[@Rokiotop900]

This sounds like your soul is in eternal peace

[@gambe96]

It’s weird that nobody mentions the 8 minutes of smooth organ sound before Terminal Lucidity (last 6 minutes). To me it’s beautiful, it’s the only part of Stage 6 other than the Clarity Moments that has something else than white noise.

[@sentimentalrotom3915]

That STILL gets me every time I listen the album again and again. You never know when it's coming.

[@spaghoe]

The thud, to me, sounds like doctors barging into your room to try to save you. The song you hear those are angles who’re taking your soul to heaven(or what you believe in). As the melody ends, it’s over. No more confusion, no more suffering only eternal bliss.

[@your.local.chunky.monkey2292]

I think right before the choir part starts you can hear the patient take their last breath

[@generalhorseradish1702]

The scariest part about this album is that you can still hear glitchy recordings of the songs, it's just very faint and covered by static. He's still trying to remember the old days. He is trying his hardest to remember. But he just can't. It feels too far away.

[@ortherner]

I think it’s just small bops of clarity that happen, but then he forgets it, and then forgets forgetting.

[@mUbase]

@@ortherner yeah they're well beyond trying.

[@vibrantgleam]

@@mUbase Legit. You're basically an alive corpse at this point, they wouldn't give a single care in this world anymore because everything got stripped away from them, how would they be able to do anything if every single memory got taken away? That's the reality of late stage Alzheimer's.

[@mUbase]

@@vibrantgleam yeah. plus all toiletry faculties, the ability to walk or talk. The person is still inside they're lying in a fetal position barely able to swallow. x The question arises, "should we remove food and water now". :..(

[@vibrantgleam]

@@mUbase At this point, they probably need to be fed through a tube or something.

[@Dylan-Frost]

To be honest, the final track was the scariest in the entire stage. Not just the last 6 minutes, but the whole track. For majority of the album it was just static and white noise. The final track is different. It started out as white noise until 1:11:06, where long organ chords started fading in, symbolizing that the patient is in their final days. The final 6 minutes is the actual death. Something about that just really creeps me out.

[@jack_rabbit]

the silence is the death. the choir is them being lucid again right before the end, a phenomena that is a normal occurrence for dementia patients. maybe their life is even flashing before them, if they are lucky.

[@RiceWitch-dingus-400]

It's brutal yes but it's also where our patient can just get a rest from thinking, they can't comprehend thinking or forgetting at this point. At the end, our patient is finally put to a peaceful rest where they are everywhere at the end of time.

[@Rokiotop900]

Subjectivity is a bliss. For me was tje most happy song

[@deviantsemicolon618]

@@jack_rabbit the terminal lucidity theory makes even more sense when you realize what the track is. It’s a track the Caretaker has used in the past called “Friends Past Reunited”. He first used it in his first album in 1999. The final track is supposed to represent the Caretaker, as a character, having one final clear moment before death. One last clear memory of his life before it all fades away.

[@volframs1925]

well all the track really is just a continuation of the previous one q1 idk how you can be creeped out by a track thats supposed to absolutely break you with slight melody that was left but tbh if i was listening this for the first time i wouldnt notice anything

[@stimuncy]

At this point...phase 6, I've completely lost touch with phase 1. I've forgotten the sound. I am questioning everything I thought I knew about dementia. (I'm a caregiver, late stage) I was always curious why one of my residents would keep her head down as she walked, she would have outbursts when people talked too loud. She would walk for about 14 hours a day. Back and fourth.. sometimes bumping into the same wall repeatedly. She would hum, but her sentences never made sense...i hug her everyday and tell her I love her. Sometimes she says it back. Sometimes not. She walks up to people with her hands out. Like she wants to tell you something but you can't make any sense of it. She's only 65 so she is still young. Anyway... this series really fucked with me mentally. Especially working in end stage dementia. I've had 5 residents die in front of me and im mostly by their side so they don't feel like they're left alone in their final moments. Holy shit...why did I write this much? Love you all, appreciate the ones around you and live life to the fullest.. you may not remember some day 🖤🧠🤯

[@hellonokay1925]

And so he forgot about this comment...... Then soon his thoughts and memories....

[@pleasestop104]

You are doing the right thing.

[@redshuttleredacted6422]

@@pleasestop104 I agree with ya.

[@AverageSynth]

@@zorubark the album is an artistic interpretation of dementia getting worse and worse

[@RubyPiec]

"you may not remember some day" then whats the point in "living life to the fullest"?

[@leafdog2714]

Did I just die????

[@TunaminV1]

Robert Aiello you would’ve with LSD

[@checkYVELLUAP]

Kinda

[@lollipopknox]

@@TunaminV1 I Dont think this would be good tripping music

[@scrimbo1034]

ye

[@joeh6915]

yeah probably

[@CarnewPictures]

Stage 6 Interesting moments 16:56-Distorted piano sounding notes 46:15-Clarity 58:58-Distorted Heartaches 1:11:18-Organ 1:19:51-Terminal Lucidity

[@bingobeego]

58:58

[@CarnewPictures]

@@bingobeego thank you

[@Niiiko895]

@@CarnewPictures 13:13

[@TheSpadeStealer_98]

​@@CarnewPictures 16:56

[@CarnewPictures]

@@TheSpadeStealer_98 thank you

[@roiroije6326]

Everyone gangsta till the long, organ drone suddenly cuts off and they know *exactly what's about to happen and that they are not ready to listen to it.*

[@graceanderson8731]

The final minute of this album is the first time Silence Music has worked on me. I've 'listened' to 4'33 and similar works and I understood what the composers intended, but every time I was more irritated knowing that there are better ways to achieve what they want without seeming so pretentious. The silence actually means something this time. It represents someone passing away. No more bliss, no more misery, no more anything. But I am still alive, and I am still able to experience the world around me. I was taking a walk when I heard this the first time. The final minute made me pay attention to the sound of the bugs, the wind, my foot steps against the grass and concrete, etc. Even the most ridiculous concepts can be wonderful when executed properly.

[@kem1kal]

see also boards of canada "magic window" (but not the track alone, for it is the final track on their album "geogaddi" and makes all the more sense in context, having just listened to the previous music)

[@graceanderson8731]

@@kem1kal Thank you for the recommendation! I'll be sure to check it out.

[@ju1.15]

graciously said grace

[@oofadoofa313]

You listened to this while taking a walk?

[@graceanderson8731]

@@oofadoofa313 Yes, I did.

[@noahmcc1]

what you hear when you get on the second page of google

[@progect3548]

@Ryan Smith let people make memes and have jokes. Stop ruining the fun. If all you are the horrid meme trash.

[@lukeberrie3942]

Ah yes, the *b a c k r o o m s*

[@ghdhfgh6125]

This was the laugh that I needed today

[@ghdhfgh6125]

@Ryan Smith Oh boy! Another smartass.

[@cozzy124]

This isn't the place for that..

[@quentenburnett7296]

If you listen to EATEOT backwards it's about a sick, dying old man who miraculously gets better, regains his memories, and lives happily ever after.

[@kimjongunsucksbooty750]

just like me fr

[@Theopops.]

If only this could happen in real life

[@Wind-nj5xz]

I actually listened to EATEOT backwards, it's a strangely interesting experience.

[@dementedgamer0810]

@@Wind-nj5xz Woah

[@dementedgamer0810]

@@Wind-nj5xz So y'mean playing all the songs backwards? Or just reversing the order of tracks?

[@Seagullson]

All moments of clarity in stage 6 14:38 16:55 40:00-43:39,a low pitched instrument appears several times 40:20 46:15 47:50, 55:57 1:02:28 1:03:48 **BY THE WAY A USER CALLED NEPTUNE MADE THIS COMMENT. I SIMPLY POSTED THIS SO THAT I DONT HAVE TO SCROLL TOO FAR TO CLICK THE TIME STAMPS** thanks :)

[@DrencoDemon]

Those low pitched instruments are from H1 - Post awarness confusions, I might be vanishing, The prettiest little song of all, Goodnight my beutiful and heartaches can "clearly" be heard except Der Linderbaung

[@AnhVo322]

45:07

[@Hauntedballroom1919]

18:14

[@_Pike]

If you don’t need this comment anymore then delete it

[@that1toad64]

14:38, 16:55 One of An empty bliss' title tracks 40:00 "There's Too Many Eyes That Wanna Make Eyes at Two Pretty Eyes I Love" -Ted Weems 40:20 The Haunted Ballroom 1 46:15 "Hearts" Cord Ted Fio Rito's This is Romance 47:50, 55:57, 1:02:28, 1:03:48 Also This is Romance

[@daroachdoggjr7497]

Something so unbelievably horrifying has no business being this beautiful

[@universe1685]

Your so right

[@GeometryDashEndermaster]

Why the hell is roachdogg jr here lmao

[@gyumii]

brother

[@greenamogus]

joker

[@sean..L]

This sounds almost like a recording from the bottom of the ocean or from deep inside the earth. Like massive non-rescript entities moving through vast empty space.

[@progect3548]

That’s exactly what I was thinking before I saw that comment. Like wtf?

[@Solaire_of_Astora13]

It's as if people suffering from dementia were on the realms of the death and the living at the same time, yet they cannot comprehend what's happening to them or how to communicate that experience to us. To us these noises are incomprehensible. It's death. An empty void, just like the ocean.

[@klein2042]

In a hidden sea, buried deep.

[@nathanjohnpalaogaming4872]

@@klein2042 loop de loop

[@gero3015]

@@Solaire_of_Astora13 Why are Swans fans so pretentious like you?

[@thecaketubby5764]

Place in the World Fades Away is an absolute masterpiece of a theme.

[@PanzereichMapping]

It’s just random noises like the rest of the album.

[@PartyRockerOG]

@@PanzereichMapping then you have never heard it

[@PanzereichMapping]

@@PartyRockerOG I have.

[@PartyRockerOG]

@@PanzereichMapping then you would know this track isn’t just a bunch of random sounds

[@PanzereichMapping]

@@PartyRockerOG random ambient noise.

[@andreavoigtlander1087]

*O1 - A Confusion so thick you Forget Forgetting* 14:38 16:55 *P1 - A brutal bliss beyond this empty defeat* 40:00-43:39 (Low Pitched Trumpet appearing several times) 40:20 *Q1 - Long Decline is Over* 45:10 46:15 47:50 50:48 52:34 56:53 55:56 58:24 58:59 - 1:00:00 (Reminiscent of "It's just a burning memory" from Stage 1) 1:01:13 1:01:51 1:02:28 - 1:02:45 (Singular Trumpet) 1:03:48 *R1 - Place in the World Fades Away* 1:06:25 (The last time the patient remembers a song/instrument, these muffled piano notes can be interpreted as the patient remembering one last tune before forgetting music entirely) *The End* 1:19:41 (The Final 5 Minutes) 1:24:56 (1 Minute Silence)

[@faye_isc]

i think otherwise. 1:19:38 your soul, YOU , finally give up fighting the illness , at that silent break . - And then the 5 minutes of Angels aka clarity / terminal lucidity starts when you regain yourself for a short period of time , like a soul resurrection. like remembering hearing or the smells around you . etc etc. - But it's too late , because of the damage the illness caused to your body. - After you enjoy the last moments of "remembering" , you forget the last thing remained to be forgotten. Breathing. And then you forget it. And you die , the second time , for good.

[@that1toad64]

All the Q1 Clarities you pointed out are Ted Fio Rito's This is Romance

[@yourmom6472]

AT LAST someone acknowledges the clarity in the final track (at 1:06:25)

[@moneymandate]

stage 6 is without description... That still gives me chills to read that

[@vibrantgleam]

It's the unknown

[@Wind-nj5xz]

Your profile picture is pretty fitting

[@apollyonnoctis1291]

It’s useless to give a description when there’s nothing left to describe.

[@elelelelelelelelelelel]

Post-Awareness Stage 6 is without description.

[@reaptest4729]

and your point is?

[@lostuser1094]

It was a glorious final bow. Goodbye, The Caretaker. Thank you for your work.

[@anxiousscribe]

I don't understand. Is he quitting?

[@vonzo55]

@@anxiousscribe Yes, he is. No more releases from now

[@lostuser1094]

Hannah Kleber from what I gather Leyland Kirby will release more music; The Caretaker as a project is over.

[@YepsMr]

Lost User is his other work similar in sound or different?

[@lostuser1094]

R Y some is very very different - the V/VM material in particular is like its from a completely different person.

[@xr_asura]

"Long declive is over" is extraordinary

[@ghz957]

If this had a description at all: STAGE 6 The mind is broken. Whatever memory or knowledge you had is lost, you forgot how to eat, walk, you forgot how to live. You're stuck in a state that never changes. You don't know what a thing is, nor do you know how to think. It's the end of the line.

[@vibrantgleam]

FINALLY A DESC XD

[@vinnytheplayer5500]

Thats stage 7

[@Cheolssip]

@@vibrantgleam It not supposed to have a desc because I personally think stage 6 having no description just shows how empty the mind of the patient is.

[@vibrantgleam]

@@Cheolssip I kind of agree with your statement because it really does give me the creeps. Like imagine your mind being so empty.

[@synthwav3413]

MEMORIES BROKEN THE TRUTH GOES UNSPOKEN

[@AuroraBorealis2006]

Stage 6: The subject has little to no ability to communicate and walk, is losing their motor skills, and requires help with most activities. The end is near. Stage 6 starts very similarly to Stage 5 where not much of anything is going on and it's mostly ambiance and white noise. That's how it is for nearly all of the album. The first section is called "A confusion so thick you forget you are forgetting", and by this point, you've forgotten everything. Everything is so foreign, so new, and it's terrifying. SPOILER WARNING FOR THE END: The last six minutes are very sad. What seems to be an angelic choir sings for five minutes, most likely this is the subject passing on, and then there's a minute of silence. The subject has died...

[@izzymarie4326]

the way you explained this was somehow beautiful

[@CodyDBuni]

That's significantly more disturbing than just "Post-Awareness Stage 6 is without description" not gonna lie...

[@Crazylom]

Stage 6 - is when desease starts to take on BIOS of the patient, because OS is gone long time ago.

[@Thorin-MattfromGO]

So stage 6 really does have a description after all

[@Jay-uu5lu]

That would be stage 7

[@01Micha]

18:14 Anyone else hear "It's just a burning memory" here? Faintly, in the distance?

[@pleasantblue555]

its also in r1, but stretchy stretchy

[@Leo-rl7qi]

FINALLY SOMEONE

[@lukeberrie3942]

I swear that I can also hear Al Bowlly in there somewhere… Terrifying.

[@er9618]

I can't hear it

[@exeterishere6928]

I'm pretty sure it's actually A Stairway To The Stars kzbin.info/www/bejne/apaphqqvptiXsMU

[@NOX814]

Those last 5 minutes. It could be the Funeral march, or what you hear when being lowered in the grave. It could be the Angels above welcoming you home. Or the most disturbing, it could mean the moments or days before brain death, when you act differently and joyful before your time comes. I'm donating to Alzheimers research, easily my next 3 paychecks (1800) just because of these last 5 minutes, and because of this whole Series period. F*ck man, I'm crying.

[@Textago]

I like to think of the last 5 minutes as Terminal Lucidity

[@faye_isc]

i think otherwise. 1:19:38 your soul, YOU , finally give up fighting the illness , at that silent break . - And then the 5 minutes of Angels aka clarity / terminal lucidity starts when you regain yourself for a short period of time , like a soul resurrection. like remembering hearing or the smells around you . etc etc. - But it's too late , because of the damage the illness caused to your body. - After you enjoy the last moments of "remembering" , you forget the last thing remained to be forgotten. Breathing. And then you forget it. And you die , the second time , for good.

[@Zeaf]

21:04 heartaches tries to start i think here

[@pingas469]

Is the album cover supposed to be the back side of a painting? that's crazy

[@MarcioACanedo]

the memory is there but you can't reach it. And the more you look at it you forget that there's the other side.

[@bentoouthesmall4031]

Impossible to know, and that's the whole point. I think personally that this is equally as perfect an album cover as An Empty Bliss's. That cover has a cigarette sticking out a huge grey mass, an indistinguishable memory. The only thing you can lock onto it hat whatever it is, it's smoking. This cover is similar, it seems so familiar, like you could name the object. A cabinet door, the backside of a painting, a cork-board. Whatever it is, it's in your mind, but you can't reach it.

[@Hi-fd4cw]

@@bentoouthesmall4031 I always thought it was a rock with two clock hands on it, like the minute hand and the hour hand.

[@tdawson198]

It's a painting of the backside of a painting

[@jennymayer7277]

Yeah, that's just fucking insane. 😂

[@terralexj9468]

if this is what it is like to experience severe alzheimer's, i don't think i want to get old

[@samtinkle9076]

If this is what it’s like to experience severe Alzheimer’s, I think I would want someone to shoot me in the back if the head.

[@wuandondo4832]

Sam Tinkle I do personally believe that this project is an over exaggeration of what Alzheimer’s actually is. Don’t get me wrong, Alzheimer’s is terrifying to think about but it is just difficult to display confusion through music. You don’t live through every minute of Alzheimer’s with horror. There are it’s sad moments and happy moments and confused moments. Alzheimer’s can take 10 whole years until you could die. I bet you that your family would rather spend those 10 last years with you than a dead version of you. Alzheimer’s is a pretty slow disease which could be bad for you since you would constantly be aware of what’s to come, but you could still spend the time that you have with your family. Alzheimer’s occurs in old people so most of them have already lived their life and have had experiences. They don’t like their diagnosis, but if it gives them and their family a whole 10 years left to spend with each other, they would accept it (they would definitely still feel scared). I would take it. If I was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s even at my age of 13, I would still take it and spend the last years with my family.

[@samtinkle9076]

I get that, and after reading my comment originally I think that’s an exaggeration. Compressing a decade of Alzheimer’s experiences into an hour and 40 minites would generate the worst of the worst, and that’s what I was responding to. If this *album* was like Alzheimer’s, I wouldn’t want to live anymore. I can’t say for actual Alzheimer’s.

[@thatoneplayer5407]

@@samtinkle9076 The complete version (6 albums) is 6 hours long. Just saying.

[@Qsstert]

WHY ARE PEOPLE SO NICE AND FKN COOL

[@trubobu]

O1: a blanket of heavy confusion, the continued degradation of one's ability to express themselves, tending towards zero (essentially a continuation of N1) P1: the confusions of O1 transition into what sounds like horror and frustration - the amalgamation of memories forged by stages 4 and 5 frantically try to break through the ever-growing fog but ultimately end up drowning in each other Q1: the patient attempting to recall anything at all and and a far more dynamic but desaturated soundscape; periods not spent attempting to recall a specific memory are smothered in silence R1: a continuation of Q1 - the patient is still attempting to recall a long-lost memory, but each attempt becomes weaker than the last perhaps the patient is becoming tired they appear to be at peace as what seems to be an organ fades in, the patient accepts their fate slowly at first they appear anxious about dying so soon but later, lying in bed with his eyes closed, with what little cognition is left he comes to terms with his mortality - it's been a fulfilling life despite losing everything but then- it stops he jerks his head up to see loved ones around him disoriented and confused at the situation, but aware of his surroundings, his daughter speaks up "Dad?" "Yes?" "You're here, you're really here after all!" "Oh sweetie, I've always been here. Would you like me to make you a cup of tea?" "That would be much appreciated" - the cup is made - "So, pumpkin, what have you been up to today?" "I-... I've been here at your side... You've been bedridden for God knows how long... It's a miracle you're up and running again!" "Oh no-no, I've just been sleeping a while, is all." - they drink - "Now I'm feeling pretty tired again, I'll hop back into bed. See you tomorrow." "Alright then, I'll stay here with you to keep you company." - he goes back to sleep - little does he know, this will be the last time he ever closes his eyes.

[@tCoL_corp]

Please note that the clearest you get with terminal lucidty is late stage 2 to mid stage 3

[@upanddowntwice1]

You can hear two notes from Heartaches at 40:20, think that's the last time you hear it in the album.

[@DrencoDemon]

Thats Russian Rose

[@fionaanimates8692]

This make me picture an older woman in an empty nursing home restaurant sitting alone in nothing but stillness and her slowing deteriorating recounting of memories and further decaying health. So sad to picture that many must suffer with this illness.Thank you, Caretaker, thank you. Edit: I work in a nursing home, and having to see that with people is just so sad.

[@epicmonkey3347]

My great-grandmother lived to be 98, and by the time she was 90 she didn't even know my dad's name. Even if she was right next to us all at a family gathering, she was never there.

[@vibrantgleam]

@@epicmonkey3347 90?? And she died at 98? I couldn't imagine what the last years were like.

[@10Scimitar]

This series of recordings is one of the most profound experiences of my life. I'm 60 and it has managed to tease out stuff I didn't know was there. Many many tears flowed but it was worth it.

[@declanlohan7951]

I live on the beach in New York and in the summer it’s amazing but went I go take a walk on the beach on a cold cloudy winters day every thing is gunmetal grey the sky/the ocean and this is a audible representation of it

[@declanlohan7951]

*i went

[@hydrogendemon]

What stuff

[@diegohigashikata9206]

Same... After hearing this you suddenly care a lot about your mental health am I right? Such a terrifying fate as having dementia...

[@UnPibeFormal]

My respects sir, I hope it doesn't have a bad time and that I have the support of someone else. :)

[@mcdiggles1141]

What I like most about Stage 6 isn’t the way it sounds, but what it’s made of. Every other part up to this point has gradually been getting more noisy, as the fight between each sound grows greater and greater, but in Stage 6, it shows that the imaginary vessel that we have been viewing as “spiraling out of control” has finally lost control completely. They have become accustomed to the noise, they have fought tooth and nail against the degrading world around them, Stage 5 was the last platforms falling away until all that was left was a black mist, and in Stage 6, the vessel is no longer afraid but instead hollow-hearted and bored. But if we, the viewers do some digging, there are still songs even within the quiet static. Sped up, cutting in and out, but still very audible, but the vessel refused to even try and recollect them. Memories are now background noise to the sufferer. The natural state of the vessel is a simple, quiet breeze of what once was, like a disgusting perversion of peace of mind; conclusion never reached, instead forced upon the unfortunate soul whose mind and thoughts we hear playing out in real time. In one ear, out the other.

[@justanotherschmuck4149]

i think that last paragraph just described whatever an empty bliss might be that the caretaker likes to keep referencing.

[@kriss_cross_buns4104]

I like how the floor blends with the background

[@CaJoel]

almost looks like the floor bends upwards like the canvas was a photos taken at some sort of photoshoot with a blank background

[@bedge7782]

I literally cant see where the walls and floor end and begin now. *You, sir, are a magician.*

[@kriss_cross_buns4104]

Uh thanks I guess I thought it was a nice detail

[@dopplereffeckt675]

I've been listening to experimental and ambient for over 25 years, and this is right up there with the best.

[@DiegoGarcia-pw7ut]

What would you consider the other best?? Or like the top 3

[@oioioim843]

Any recommendations?

[@hellio27]

@@oioioim843 i would recommend selected ambient works volume 2 and the tired sounds of stars of the lid, both are ambient classics and i adore them very much

[@oioioim843]

@@hellio27 thank you fellow radiohead fan :') have a nice day ✨

[@frocco7125]

Any recommendations?

[@PaulBenjaminJenkins]

Just realized the ending is taken from The Caretaker release from 1999, the track called Friends Past Reunited, also found on the Stairway to the Stars album. The amount of overlap between all his albums has to be hard to keep track of. Someone should create a crazy chart that links them all together, haha. 1,2,3 not it.

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

That would be cbt to do that. Friends past reunited first shows up in selected memories from the haunted ballroom but down pitched and abruptly cut off. So is libet's delay and heartbreak and one other commonly recurring song if I remember correctly.

[@wetigaz]

I am adamant that the first sound on track Q is the beginning of "Midnigbt the stars and you" (the song from the shining and also a song on his first album)

[@supervitu64]

1:20:00 the angelical voices that makes much people cry

[@relaxer1148]

I think that these noises are from the funeral after the person dies. The singing is probably from a church choir.

[@changingsoon97]

The final boss of EATEOT

[@Tarkus_H]

I feel as though the crackly noises take on different meanings throughout the whole album. At first, it's basically just the typical crackle of old vinyl records that went with the early 20th century music. Then, as the music distorts and breaks down, the crackle gets worse, likely representing the plaques in the brain that erode the synapses as the disease runs its course. And once everything recognizable is gone, and the crackling still lingers, it seems to me like the sounds of a mind being metaphorically cooked on a skillet.

[@avosmash2121]

Funny how out of all this series, this is genuinely the most pleasant and soothing one to listen to. Reminds me of the sea, or car rides as a passenger in the rain at night. The other albums produced mainly nostalgic depression or guilt or nauseated fear in me of the end, this just makes me feel like, "huh. I guess it's not really do bad is it?" It's sad but a comfortable and relaxing normal type of sad, where like when you are home alone and ill or something, and just trying to relax....you feel lonely, but you are also grateful for being alone there, you know in the back of your weak feverish mind that your family loves you, they did all they could to pamper you with soft blankets and chicken soup, and now, there's nothing left to do but try to heal and go to sleep, and ultimately accept and leave it up to your body and God, that if you ever wake up again, it is what it will be.

[@johnnyguitar7921]

try listening to tome Tod Dockstader cheers

[@wjajfkdbcksjxvksnvkdnxksns4644]

@Quantum Passport the entire album is about dementia

[@KanselDumbass]

@@wjajfkdbcksjxvksnvkdnxksns4644 they knew that

[@wjajfkdbcksjxvksnvkdnxksns4644]

@@KanselDumbass wait isnt there a difference with dementia and alzheimer's??? i keep getting confused lmao

[@KanselDumbass]

@@wjajfkdbcksjxvksnvkdnxksns4644 alzheimer's is different from dementia, but alzheimer's is the most common cause of dementia.

[@breckon2684]

Wow. When I found this guy I was like, oh cool he made rereleases of old music. This is cool. Then, I realized that it was a series, and I started to look through the series. As it went on, it got more weird sounding, and less like music. I like this, but I don't at the same time.

[@SigmaPhonkBabyGronk]

Same here

[@hbaggg]

it's meant to represent dementia

[@gero3015]

its called drone music

[@Sams_Sacred_Space]

No longer able to convey it’s true essence, the board is bare. It is still upright but all semblance of recognition is lost. You see the shell of an object

[@canibeemoandpartofthearmy1321]

my grandma is on about stage 5 of alzheimer’s. she drives my mum and my aunty bonkers, especially during covid lockdown. she struggles to remember what she said about 5 minutes ago and sometimes can’t read what things say, for example once she pronounced busy as “bussy” . she has no sign of life behind the eyes unlike a few years ago. she sounds different too, she’s still cheerful but now her voice is more weak and sad. i don’t think it helps that our granddad died a few years ago so she lives in the house alone, but she doesn’t want to go to a nursing home and she refuses to believe that she has dementia which is the most frustrating thing i’d say. she’s still kind hearted, but has lost her filter and often says offensive things. that’s how you can tell she’s gone, she twists her rings a lot and i like to imagine that’s her real self trying to show that she’s still in there somewhere i guess i’m not sure i just like to think that haha. but i think she’ll forget my name within the next two or three months. i think i’ve written enough here, but i’m asking you now, if you still have functioning grandparents, please please be grateful for them because they can be gone in a wink of an eye. i’d say i’m rather lucky because i have select memories of my grandma before she was like this so this is really all i can remember kind of, she’s almost 73 and i’m almost 14. have a good day

[@bazinga2171]

hows your grandma

[@Zorro9129]

My grandfather passed from Alzheimer's. This series has given me a renewed appreciation and this is a fitting requiem.

[@moiraitree]

The picture here is actually the behind of a painting canvas which means that the memory is there within the person, but they are unable to grasp the memory.

[@Pacman_257]

Plus blue tape means an area in a home needs to be repaired

[@nathanjohnpalaogaming4872]

@@Pacman_257 destroy it instead

[@nickieisyoppie]

This is the scariest in the entire album and I understand what its conveying, but its also my favorite simply because in the grand scheme of things its also a really good ambient piece of music. Its even scarier given how the last album was so chaotic, this in a way is so much more deep and out of this world that it makes it somehow more calming

[@friendlyap8134]

If there were to be a stage 7, it would be the moments after terminal lucidity, leading to death. So the first song is a more distorted and broken version of the final 6 minutes, representing that terminal lucidity is almost over. This song lasts for only 5 minutes. I'll call the song, "Place in the World Is Gone". The 2nd song is much longer, "Take Care, Its A Desert Out There" is quite fitting for stage 7, since it's pretty much an empty void. It makes it as if the memories weren't there to begin with and you can't even squeeze out a single note no matter how hard you try. This song will take up most of the album. The 3rd and final song is "Death of An Empty Shell". This one isn't even a song, it's the noises that are happening around the patient while laying in the hospital bed. The patient's brain is now forgetting to breathe, so they are put on life support. The patient can barely hear beeping noises, doors opening, and other people , since their brain is now having trouble comprehending noise. After a few minutes of these noises, the last thing you hear is something being unplugged, and then the noises quickly fade out. Then there is one last minute of silence to represent the death of the patient.

[@mymistkaes]

Wow. I really like that idea.

[@friendlyap8134]

Update, I actually made my own version of stage 7, it's not that good though, and it's different from what I had in mind. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJizap-lp7qejJY

[@PartyRockerOG]

This is really stage 7. In real terms stage 1 of the album would be stage 2 because that’s when dementia is settling in and memory loss is starting. Stage 1 irl is no decline meaning if there was a real stage 1 to the album it would just be regular music that isn’t distorted at all

[@loshelley5804]

@@PartyRockerOG yeah everyone is in stage 1 rn it’s only if someone contracts Alzheimer’s/some other types of dementia that they’ll go into stage 2.

[@finden3362]

Why Take care when A Stairway to Stars fits it, specially the two last tracks. Still good idea

[@mouthfulofchlorine]

I interpret the last 5 minutes as literal death, since at 1:19:52 you can hear what sounds like a person falling down some stairs.

[@stylishcephalophod]

I think I heard hospital doors swinging open...

[@supremegoat24]

@@stylishcephalophod yeah, that makes much more sense.

[@b0ltun0]

@@stylishcephalophod this makes alot of sense

[@TunaminV1]

It’s actually the third time we hear it. The first two were from Selected Memories From The Haunted Ballroom and A Stairway To The Stars.

[@kayleighwyatt8737]

Heard it just as I read these comments. I trembled.

[@Qqqqq394]

Those last 5 minutes make it seem like your stuck in a coffin and you can't move you want to scream but you cant

[@matturner6890]

*you're

[@philidor9657]

I guess death is meant to be interpreted by everyone differently, but this is not the vibe I got at allll. That was the previous few stages, but the coffin is your mind as all of your conscious thoughts and feelings slowly melt away. You want to scream and shout, you want to be normal, to be out of this hell. The confusion and horror is absolutely suffocating. The last 5 minutes mean a release to me, after hearing the previous few albums. Something so beautiful it stands out among everything else which was a one way spiraling path downward. This is acceptance, relief, a final thought or feeling as everything you have ever known melts away. As your place in the world fades away, being greeted by the sweet singing of nothing at the other end of the dark tunnel you just suffered through.

[@G70k]

Terminal lucidity

[@matturner6890]

@1NTERN3T I saw that you misspelled that at first lololol chump

[@Daniel-uc9ll]

@@matturner6890 ok and

[@gumbsll4936]

In R1 (the middle of it), it reminds me of that noise you would hear when everything is quiet. I remember hearing it upstairs in my small room with a slanted ceiling. It's an isolated feeling. Now, whenever I hear it, I'll never forget this album. I'll think about death. Decomposition. The way everybody and every living thing will be eaten up by other living things that are yet to die. The smaller decomposers (like blowfly larvae) will shrivel up. But in that album, it also reminds me of a xylophone. I can't explain how.. The final segment of this video (end of R1), it kind of sounds like muffled singing. And like music. It's more sad than scary. Yes, it's very unnerving, but the sadness and the emotion of the noise is heavier than that. It's like mourning somebody who's dead. I guess it defines the final stage of dementia. When you forget everything you've ever loved, hated, and even basic things like how to brush your teeth. Or how to move your feet. The person is basically not functioning at that point. Again, this leads back to that slanted room. It had a large slanted window. I don't have much furniture in it, either. And I'm in it by myself a lot.

[@Lil_Zigzag]

My grandfather died in 2017 and I still cant get over it. He was so funny and he helped me with so many things. He would play billiards with me, and my mums dad was him. I will never forget the day he died. For the overview of this song it just melts me, i haven’t cried so hard in my life, and i never thought i would. He died of alzheimers as well. Me and my family just watching him fade away into the afterlife… He would do anything for me… What you felt is what i felt. Or maybe not. The last words i heard from him was “I wish i could spend more time with you, but just keep going on with life.” Then the voice of him cuts out and his whole soul is in the afterlife. Thats my story.

[@reaptest4729]

walk it off kid

[@Lil_Zigzag]

…

[@that1toad64]

@@Lil_Zigzag Don't listen or reply to these types of people. All they want is to get a reaction out of you, no matter how serious the subject is.

[@Lil_Zigzag]

@@that1toad64 okay, thanks.

[@aseheavyindustries798]

someone described this as "minecraft cave sounds on steroids"

[@OblivionXE]

Wtf

[@thewaigh]

true

[@cozzy124]

Facts

[@nonameunfortunately]

46:10

[@hydrogendemon]

Hah Ha hah

[@the_moist]

In the last 5 minutes with the choir it kept sounding like it would end but it just kept going and getting more and more deja-vu-ish holy moly guacamole

[@tatemitchell1479]

This is inspiring me to keep a diary. At least then, if I ever forget how to read it, my future grandchildren might have some answers to questions I can’t answer verbally. “How many times have you been in love, Grandma?” “What was life like when you were a child?” “What were your dreams and life goals growing up?” They can read it if I can’t tell them. I’ll buy a notebook tomorrow. Edit: It’s the next day. I bought a notebook with a polkadot cover and pink lines to write on. Time to fill in my first entry.

[@tilsgee]

It's been 2 months. But, if you look at "Porter robinson - Shelter" (official audio ones. Not official MV ones) comment section You can see what i called it as "Public diary"

[@bl1zzrd41]

The Picture of Stage 6 has such a deep meaning to me because my grandpa has dementia and something like this picture would make sense to him. It looks like something he would carry up the stairs for ten minutes just to give it to me and say i lost it. Sometimes he would tell me he found something that belongs to me and he will either forget he said anything or bring me the most random ites you could imagine. A couple of days ago he came to me and said he found something that fell out of my pocket and gave me an empty packaging of ham with a broken nail inside of it. Then later that day he brought me a shovel with dirt and a frog and screamed „LOOK AT IT, THERE THERE, YOU SEE, LOOK AT IT“. Sometimes i feel sorry for him but sometimes im happy for him because he can now find joy in so many things he didnt care about two years ago. Everytime he sees a plane he screms like a little kid full of joy like its his first time seeing a plane.

[@CelestialOrion811]

1:19:00 the silence... My heart beat was slowed down to barely anything

[@jubileus]

7 months late, but same here, the noise became too much for me so I pressed the volume down button on my phone and exactly as I did the music stopped, I can't say I've been any more terrified

[@sienna4351]

😭 NOW HIS ACTUAL HEART BEAT STOPPED

[@samuelborsellino2553]

It sounds like if (in the 1910s) they tried recording the titanic sinking.

[@sonicthehedgegod]

that would sound MUCH more like stage 5, given recording tech at the time (which DID exist - just EXTREMELY primitive)

[@3_8mwk4]

why did i laugh at this

[@sartoriusrock]

That hit at 6:51-6:57 sounds like a bomb going off somewhere in the mental/spiritual realm.

[@willatom]

now we know what the hell siren were for

[@robbiehasasd4557]

I personally would describe this stage as an “eerie heartbreaking farewell”. You’re still alive but you’re affectively dead. No one should ever need to grieve the loss of someone still alive

[@bip-bap4774]

I hear the sun. And I don't enjoy being here anymore.

[@samtinkle9076]

This is like the perfect metaphor for a peaceful death

[@fleaship6134]

The sun doesn't emit sound dumbass.

[@bip-bap4774]

@@fleaship6134 It actually does but it was a joke. We just can't hear the resounding sound of the sun.

[@boxecomp1374]

@@fleaship6134 The sun does actually emit sound, it's just so far away and deep that we can't hear it without getting some recording device within a certain distance then speeding it up.

[@svenmedyona4649]

@@fleaship6134 Any surfaces which vibrate can produce sound, smart guy. It's just that there's no medium to transfer it from the Sun to us (due to vacuum).

[@charlottesrathermin4566]

This is what the back rooms would sound like

[@artifrac7al]

facts

[@gavinstinson9450]

this made me laugh

[@sourpuss5951]

The last 5 minutes are your gameover music

[@theamazingorigami1163]

Best description, should be added to a backroom game

[@samtinkle9076]

This is what seeing two sunrises without going to bed sounds like.

[@RubyPiec]

i was listening to this and it was at 1:19:19 that my school's internet cut out, I listened to this before and I knew the choir would come soon, so I waited... and waited... and waited for over 20 minutes, I got so confused, that's when I went onto this vid, it had the loading circle thing...

[@skeleton1773]

Oh a Playlist of Songs. I bet i can play it while falling asleep. Nothing can go Wrong

[@kylebobbydunn]

On headphones this is as doom as it gets.

[@SwooceMothmane]

this is just the first hour of every Sunn concert but with less fuzz and you can control whether your eardrums rupture

[@DystopianApocalypse]

Hahahaha this comment is underrated AF...

[@restfulflames9855]

@@SwooceMothmane its like a sunn O))) concert but nobody showed up, its just you inside of an empty amphitheater with all of the lights off. The instruments were left on but nobody is playing them, there's just an ambient drone in the background

[@stoneinfocusfilms3297]

Instead of headphones, I got a stereo that can shake my house so you can tell I was fucked at this part

[@graceanderson8731]

I'm a bit sad to see it end, but at the same time reaching an end is the entire point of this series.

[@Chameleonardodavinci]

You made me accept the end of one of my fav music projects much more with that sentence... Thank u

[@hydrogendemon]

There’s one more he made.

[@etesprk69]

O1 Section A: 00:00 - 21:52 Samples: (Panning) - Internal bewildered World - The Caretaker [Il Trovatore Miserere - Unknown pianist ft. Ferruccio Giannini] - The haunted ballroom - The Caretaker [The Haunted Ballroom - John Gregory & His Orchestra + Unknown chirping] (Center) - Libet delay - The Caretaker [Goodnight, My Beautiful - Russ Morgan & His Orchestra] -Things that are beautiful and transient - The Caretaker [The Waltz You Saved For Me - Wayne King & His Orchestra] O1 Section B: 11:15 - 17:25 Samples: [Pulled from K1 - Advanced plaque entanglements Section B-d] P1 - A brutal bliss beyond this empty defeat ▪︎Section A1: 21:52 - 33:13 Samples: • We cannot escape the past [Unknown sample | Melody: To save our souls] • Hello, 'Tucky - Layton and Johnstone ▪︎Section B-a: 29:53 - 37:08 Samples: • Unknown sample | Melody: But He said unto them/Art Thou the Son of God? • Unknown sample ▪︎Section B-b: 30:53 - 37:08 Samples: • Sebald [Frühlingstraum - Gerhard Hüsch ft. Hanns Udo Müller] • Faith in time [The Boy Next Door - Paul Renard] • Past life regression [London Town (You Haunt Me) - Unknown pianist ft. Stanley Holloway] • Libet delay [Goodnight, my beautiful - Russ Morgan & His Orchestra] ▪︎Section B-c: 31:43 - 36:43 Samples: • A New Kind of Girl - Layton and Johnstone • There's Too Many Eyes - Ted Weems & His Orchestra ft. Arthur Jarrett • Slightly bewildered [Alabamy Bound - Layton and Johnstone / The Wedding of the Painted Doll - Layton and Johnstone] ▪︎Section B-d1: 32:13 - 34:24 Samples: • Libet's delay [Goodnight, my beautiful - Russ Morgan & His Orchestra] • False memory syndrome [Russian Rose - Joe Loss & His Orchestra ft. Sam Browne] • Gradations of arm's length [Romance - Orchestra conducted by LeRoy Shield ft. John Boles] ▪︎Section B-d2: 34:24 - 37:18 Samples: • False memory syndrome [Joe Loss & His Orchestra ft. Sam Browne] • Gradations of arm's length [Romance - Orchestra conducted by LeRoy Shield ft. John Boles] • H1 Section E / Hell Sirens [Granada - Mantovani & His Orchestra] ▪︎Section A2: 36:03 - 40:05 Samples: • We have been here before [The Last Rose of Summer - Jesse Crawford] • We cannot escape the past [Unknown sample | Melody: To save our souls] • Hello, 'Tucky - Layton and Johnstone ▪︎Section C: 38:33 - 43:28 Samples: • Here I am broken hearted [Penitential Psalm VII (Nos III) - Choir of Christ Church Cathedral Oxford directed by Simon Preston] • Rosy retrospection [London Town (You Haunt Me) - Unknown pianist ft. Stanley Holloway] • The haunted ballroom [Unknown sample | Melody: The Haunted Ballroom] ▪︎Section D: 40:00 - 43:28 Sample: • There's Too Many Eyes - Ted Weems & His Orchestra ft. Arthur Jarrett Q1 - Long decline is over ▪︎Section A: 43:28 - 1:04:38 Samples: • Internal bewildered World [Il Trovatore Miserere - Unknown pianist ft. Ferruccio Giannini] • Weary River - Layton and Johnstone • An empty bliss beyond this World [The Wedding of the Painted Doll - Layton and Johnstone] • This is Romance - Ted Fio Rito & His Orchestra ft. Muzzy Marcellino & The Debutantes • I still feel as though I am me [Grand Canyon Suite: Sunrise - Paul Whiteman & His Concert] R1 - Place in the World fades away ▪︎Section A-a: 1:04:38 - 1:11:15 Samples: • Internal bewildered World [Il Trovatore Miserere- Unknown pianist ft. Ferruccio Giannini] • An empty bliss beyond this World - The Caretaker • Weary River - Layton and Johnstone • This is Romance - Ted Fio Rito & His Orchestra ft. Muzzy Marcellino & The Debutantes • I still feel as though I am me - The Caretaker ▪︎Section A-b: 1:10:53 - 1:10:57 Sample: • Weary River - Layton and Johnstone ▪︎Section B: 1:11:05 - 1:19:41 Sample: • Unknown sample | Melody: A Song of Sunshine ▪︎Section C: 1:19:41 - 1:24:56 Sample: • Unknown sample | Melody: Laßt mich ihn nur noch einmal küssen

[@hart418]

Why is this so underrated

[@hart418]

It thought there was the weeping dancefloor somewhere near the end of long decline is over

[@etesprk69]

@@hart418 maybe you mistaked it with Weary River

[@tanggoalphalema1269]

An Empty Bliss Beyond This World eateot uses Victor Young's The wedding of the painted doll, not Layton and Johnstone's (from Q1)

[@etesprk69]

@@tanggoalphalema1269 ???

[@PeybackMC]

4:12 always hits me

[@heyjoeway]

As someone who somehow managed to stumble across this project randomly within the past year or so, I don't think anything else has been able to make me feel genuine existential dread. I don't know if that's a compliment or not, but considering the whole point of this project is to convey that feeling, you did a damn good job. Kudos.

[@richardgamrat1944]

Maybe you would also like The Haxan Cloak ‎- Excavation. Its much shorter though.

[@IVomitOrgasms]

@@richardgamrat1944 Can confirm

[@dopplereffeckt675]

@@IVomitOrgasms If you are the very same guy, then I salute you sir! Now get on the batphone to Autechre and do a joint LP....👍👍👍👍👍

[@AshKetchum442]

If you would like to read some existential dread, especially anxiety, I suggest Kafka’s The Trial. Its a hellish portrayal of bureaucracy and the limbo that comes from waiting for important paperwork to be processed.

[@heyjoeway]

@Liam Durr I've been listening to them by coincidence, The Mind Electric gives a similar vibe. Also to everyone else I'll try and give the suggestions a shot at some point.

[@malsypright]

Stages 1-3 were contained within one room; everything was safely divided into each separate room, and you could focus on the decay of what was immediately infront of you. Stages 4 and 5 were after the walls started breaking down, and the noises from the other rooms flooded in and bombarded you. Stage 6 is where the entire house has collapsed, and you find yourself in the midst of a raging, stormy sea.

[@odin9628]

Stage 6 is more like: the house collapses revealing you are in the middle of a calm ocean that is everywhere and nowhere at the end of time

[@gero3015]

why do caretaker fans always come up with pretentious shit like this hahahahaha

[@robokill387]

@@gero3015 do you know what "pretentious" means?

[@gero3015]

@@robokill387 children who write pseudo intellectual bullshit on the internet to sound deep or philosophical seem to fit under that description, so yes

[@reygenne1]

@@robokill387 pretentious: 🔆 Intended to impress others 🔆 Marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction therefore they said Gero 30 implied "they are always creative in interpretation"

[@otherironicelements2787]

I've never actually cried at a video in all my life. God damn you James L Kirby for being the first to do so. You're an actual bastard for making me aware of such horror, yet the most brilliant and gifted mind of this generation. Thank you sir. Genuinely, thank you.

[@albamomo8324]

What I think it’s fascinating is the fact that even in the last stage there’s still music; it’s distorted, it’s unrecognisable and creepy but it’s still there. This stage’s cover is my favourite one out of them all: it is the backside of a painting (which is hidden), it only shows an empty part of it, which is covered by blue tape. My personal interpretation is that it actually shows what happened in this album; the true identity for the person is hidden and lock, but it’s clearly there. A very common mistake (which I also made back in the days) is that stage 6 represents a empty husk, what the patient supposedly has become while it’s not at all. He exteriorly appears as an empty husk, but he’s still clearly a person, his memories aren’t cancelled, they are just blocked by a blue tape.

[@plebbble]

ive listened to (most of) stages 1-6 of this, and its terrifying. i cant sleep at night because of this. and the reason behind it is because i could get dementia. many people in my family already have/have had the disease, and itll be easier for me than others to get dementia. i dont want to experience the emotions the series potrayed. i dont want to forget my friends and family, and the good times i had. i want to take it with me to death.

[@magna-zone1219]

then you'll have to make that choice and have the will to execute it. I think you know what I mean. Make your choice a memory you'll never forget. it isn't cowardly to reject the fall, the wasting, the descent into empty madness. its a decision, and one that nobody can judge you for if that day comes.

[@sourpuss5951]

@@magna-zone1219 Medical euthanasia? Revolver to the head? No need to sugar coat it.

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

Of you want to prevent yourself from getting alzheimers, *never eat another carbohydrate or any sugar in your entire life.*

[@plebbble]

Magna - Zone yeah, I guess if it comes to that that’s what I’m gonna have to do. I’m not gonna leave without my memory

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

@@plebbble "I read some where that type 4 diabetes is said to cause alzheimers, but I cant find the sauce anymore so take what want I ssy with a grain of walrus powder." -Bible bibbgans, may, 20th, 2390

[@Bailey_Dreamfoot]

_Thats enough youtube for today_

[@keb1b]

what is youtube

[@Yottifferent]

Useless I can’t remember

[@unrecognized8683]

what is?

[@GhostVanguard]

I agree

[@TheSantozChannel]

Enough life for today

[@Molten546]

46:15 best part of this stage other than the ending

[@imchloo]

Death by dementia is prob the worst you can ever suffer from.. Dying forgetting about everyone, about those you love and care, who made who you were to this day... This whole album is a overflow of emotions and feeling i never felt before. Thank you, Caretaker.