The Caretaker - stardust

Taken from The Caretaker album "we'll all go riding on a rainbow" released on V/Vm Test Records. brainwashed.com/vvm/releases/v...

[@_asha]

The late 2000s and early 2010s already feels like a century ago.

[@vollithe]

yeah fees like im in space

[@CROWIntruder]

Likewise

[@Ody9]

@@vollithe just slowly spining in space

[@dhull1776]

It’s true

[@S14M07]

It was only a decade or two ago- Oh… Oh…..

[@jeanbush8791]

A slow dance with someone who is leaving you.

[@rafaelmendoza4135]

Jean Bush That hurts because I know how it feels. It happened to me.

[@j.clementec.m.1558]

@JohnQRandom what? are you fucking high?

[@HazyOddMan]

ahh--- don't make it romantic

[@wormswithteeth]

Already dead

[@4blaire4]

That's going to happen in the 2021 summer. I think.

[@26kc16]

you've always been the caretaker

[@4blaire4]

Yeah. She was. But now she's dead.

[@wolfytronic]

when its shiny "ing"

[@spingleboygle]

you’ve always been the caretaker.

[@KeyUploads]

i should know, sir. i've always been here

[@SoulGunMetal]

The day I wander into a smokey club and this song is playing i'll slip into heaven through a crack in the wall.

[@ianplace9977]

How’s life going for you buddy?

[@thescoundrel1528]

@@ianplace9977 hes okay he just heard it in a smokey club and slipped into heaven through a crack in the wall

[@ianplace9977]

@@thescoundrel1528 ok

[@SemlerCrafter]

@@thescoundrel1528 looool

[@jacksbackyardbbq4840]

Have fun

[@Chameleonardodavinci]

The Caretaker is such a gift honestly

[@vollithe]

And a curse

[@ianplace9977]

I agree

[@Gravity_studioss]

They take care

[@TunaminV1]

@@Gravity_studioss for it’s a desert out there.

[@iesusdesus5704]

@@TunaminV1 Rest in peace, Mark Fisher.

[@trevercarmichael1736]

The song stardust was originally made by my great-great-grandfather Hoagy Carmichael in 1927 and later he added lyrics in 1929. This being found has finally put my grandfather in a sound that I really wanted to hear him in, a nostalgic and beautiful sound. Thank u for ur work and keep it up.

[@dementedgamer0810]

I didn't know that! Thanks for info

[@TheK073]

Thanks your great-great-grandfather for beautiful Stardust song❤

[@human6638]

your great-great-grandfather is a legend bro

[@TheOldenMemories]

Cool

[@JWProductionsOfficial]

totally

[@AB-uf1et]

This song feels like the calm you feel just before you die.. Just seconds ago you were panicked and upset but all that is gone now. You realise life will carry on without you and that comforts you

[@munt6795]

Thanks for this

[@lcdream4213]

never died before so can’t relate

[@spingleboygle]

@@lcdream4213 how about when you were in a near-death experience?

[@Strangeminds38]

I had a dream where i was shot twice in the neck and at first i was nervous and couldn't breathe right but then everything turned black and white and i felt relaxed knowing that all my worries were over, my explanation makes it sound simple but it really was a beautiful thing.

[@leafyclass]

@@Strangeminds38 I've had dreams where I've died as well, it's a beautiful thing really

[@antoineberger5142]

Sometimes I wonder why I spend A lonely night dreaming of a song The melody haunts my reverie And I am once again with you When our love was new And each kiss an inspiration But that was long ago Now my consolation is in the stardust of a song Beside a garden wall When stars are bright You are in my arms The nightingale tells his fairy tale Of paradise where roses grew Though I dream in vain In my heart it will remain My stardust melody The memory of love's refrain

[@RetroLove-]

🙏

[@spingleboygle]

:D

[@wohelfycopper7943]

This song is sad.

[@lacunaereversed]

:)

[@lordroy88]

Beautiful.

[@silviabenussi4890]

I have been searching this kind of sound for years. This is the sound of my soul. Thank you.

[@zoeeva5943]

I’ve been looking for the perfect music as well. I have gathered an extensive amount of song and genres. But this...the Caretaker’s music resonates on a different level with the artist within me.

[@pechi6801]

Me too. I've never related to music more in my entire life

[@zoeeva5943]

@@pechi6801 I feel you

[@4blaire4]

THIS IS THE GENRE OF MUSIC OF EVERYBODY'S SOULS.

[@omarbelkheiri6665]

Same bro Same

[@TerraRuneOfficial]

This feels exactly like just a burning memory, but without the weight and anxiety of the rest of everywhere at the end of time leaning over you.

[@PIFEIGENBAUM.]

true

[@iesusdesus5704]

It feels like IJABM with less of the feeling of EATEOT Stage 1 and less of EATEOT overall.

[@faaspoels2246]

bruh, WAGROAR isn't any easier to listen to for me than EAtEoT imma be honest

[@Smileythebuilding]

It’s just a burning memory gives off a different feeling then this to me.

[@Gorescripter]

​@@PIFEIGENBAUM.bruh it doesn't feel like its just a burning memory at all

[@signbear999]

I picture an empty metropolis, not a single soul, left exactly as it was in the 1940s, without a single piece of dust or a crack in the concrete, the Ford coupes sitting in the street untouched. Towering Art Deco skyscrapers loom over, as this song emanates from an unknown place, like a speaker in the heavens. It's a haunting but beautiful scene. This also reminds me of the sleepovers I had when I was a kid at my grandma's house. She watched country shows at night, and would often fall asleep to them. I woke up around midnight and heard a voice echoing throughout the home. I walked into the family room, the only light being the TV. In the light I could see my grandparents fast asleep on their chairs. The TV played a mournful song sung by a long-dead country star, on a 70s stage to an empty audience. The speakers seemed to have lost their clarity and the song dragged on in long reverberations. The only other thing I could see was the moon and stars through their ginormous picture window, beaming down onto this sleepy place. I returned to my bed down the hall, after making sure to turn off the TV. Now the song played in my mind, and was my lullaby that deep night.

[@voodoo4876]

that story is like a movie scene

[@testhekid]

comment of the centu- it's actually far better i cannot describe how beautiful this comment is, i feel blessed to read this

[@ianplace9977]

That day sounded like a nice day

[@shaneadams6463]

Sounds like Heehaw.

[@signbear999]

@@shaneadams6463 That is what my grandparents used to watch

[@itssherm9390]

I always used to listen to this song with my grandparents. My grandpa is starting to lose his memory and hearing, started having a tremor in his hand, and is having trouble walking. Listening to this hits me super hard. Thank you, Mr. Kirby, for the magic you create.

[@vincent1782]

This song makes me feel ageless, as if I'm traveling through time.

[@vollithe]

Every where, At the end, Of time.

[@QuidProQuo999]

@@vollithe Pretentious much? But again that shit is subjective lol

[@DrFumiya]

@@QuidProQuo999 Huh being pretentious? How in tf?

[@vdjane4501]

It all goes by so fast, doesn't it?

[@jeanbush8791]

"Stardust" And now the purple dusk of twilight time Steals across the meadows of my heart High up in the sky the little stars climb Always reminding me that we're apart You wander down the lane and far away Leaving me a song that will not die Love is now the stardust of yesterday The music of the years gone by Sometimes I wonder why I spend The lonely night dreaming of a song The melody haunts my reverie And I am once again with you When our love was new And each kiss an inspiration But that was long ago Now my consolation Is in the stardust of a song Beside a garden wall When stars are bright You are in my arms The nightingale tells his fairy tale A paradise where roses bloom Though I dream in vain In my heart it will remain My stardust melody The memory of love's refrain Ghost dancing.......

[@GabrielLarose99099]

God, this song really crushed me down, specially when the voice starts to sing, its just too much for me, too sad and beautiful, much love to the caretaker

[@Metabii]

These songs are the truly "slowed + reverb". It sounds much more natural, magical, and gives the true sensation of a long time ago. Leyland Kirby never disappoints.

[@Shadowiann_]

@@paintball7797 i have found out if you use noise reduction after using reverb on audacity, the reverb sounds better

[@certainpeople159]

look at this elegant picture! the clouds block the sun creating a gloomy shade of blue over the snow. it just barely is nightfall which adds to the aesthetic. the filter on this is also wonderful

[@human6638]

the picture gives me an extreme feeling of nostalgia, i remember being to a lot of places during those blue hours before the pandemic

[@3ethanyp.977]

Slightly disturbing... I imagine this playing in a dark corridor or in an abandoned mall after WWIII :/

[@fiyum333]

overused cliche but uh fallout 3 metro areas

[@techdeckdudes_]

This song genuinely moves me to tears. So beautiful...

[@FilmBucket]

YO ITS THE GUY

[@TheOldenMemories]

​@@FilmBucket bruh, he just posted videos of songs from the caretaker, he ain't special

[@FilmBucket]

@@TheOldenMemories Cry about it TheBackrooms124

[@techdeckdudes_]

@@TheOldenMemories *They

[@lordroy88]

WAGROAR isn’t one of his best works imo but this song is definitely incredible. There are hidden gems sprinkled about.

[@Crazylom]

From this time forward, i am convinced, that caretaker came from other plast of reality to show us his way, goods and stunnings.

[@LytaRyta]

..he was just ..*There.. ( ..at Dark Lounge, Twin Peaks Entrance..) still is there..

[@papanovembermusic]

Use to work at tempest records in Birmingham and I collected any VVM release, splattered red vinyl, pink piggy sounds, greay vinyl factory samples, so great to hear this insanely touching new work!!!

[@jackpijjin4088]

The first (shellac, 78rpm) record my grandpa gave me was the Tommy Dorsey and Frank Sinatra version of Stardust. I listened to it bright-eyed and eagle-eared, through the surface noise and hum of the old tube amp in the 'classroom' record player, enjoying every second of it. A genuine connection between his generation and mine. We both loved making things, antiques, records, music... all kinds of things like that; passions he helped instill in my heart. He passed recently. The last few times I saw him he couldn't even form a coherent sentence. He could barely hold a glass to take a drink. The last words he said to me, specifically, were "I missed my ride." We had been working on his (now my) 1964 Ford with the main goal of taking him for one last ride, and indeed we weren't able to finish the project in time. He was saying it as a joke, with a smile, but... it still cuts me to think of it. I'm grateful I was at least able to get the car running for him though, so there's that consolation. Anyway... Hearing this take of this song, so distant sounding, coupled with the memories and thoughts and experiences I've had recently... just hits me in a way that no other song has yet.

[@CROWIntruder]

Well I hope you got the closure you deserve :)

[@musidoralevamp5190]

This song makes me imagine dancing slowly, with the love of my life in a party hall, after midnight... just us.

[@Coolpencils29]

I love how scary but yet beautiful this song is.

[@eritz412]

melancholic

[@BlackFlagHeathen]

It’s crazy how EATEOT is just pure existential dread and horror, and the rest of the Caretaker’s stuff is “no thoughts, head empty” tier stuff. I love it.

[@Zawmbbeh]

Letting go of nostalgia, The Caretaker sits back and lets the record sing to them. The horns, saxes, bass, all of it soaks into their very conscious.

[@PIFEIGENBAUM.]

the image gives me a feeling of old times and nostalgia

[@colt6566]

i feel like im dancin thru my head with people throughout my life…reliving memories-I’ve always loved the vintage style and i live for it…this song feels like peace…the calm in a show theatre after the people have gone…i feel old and new at the same time beginning and ending in the same scope of time-this feels like a reprise to life-perfect for chilly days and world building

[@fl3820]

Feels like acceptance of your mortality and tired, exhausted, but sincere smile in the last moments.

[@the2ndcomingoflaynekrusz654]

Song info: Uses Stardust by Majorie Stedeford, all of it, slowed down by -5%, was heard again in the unsound live performance.

[@dementedgamer0810]

Panning direction: 32% Left

[@Airland-xx3pr]

I swear it is something more than slowed it by 5%.

[@malictory]

I wanna stand in that picture!

[@rictuserectus6686]

Lyrics in a The Caretaker song... feels nice

[@sonny5082]

how the fuck was he able to create something so beautiful in what feels like such ease. this album is such a gift

[@edwardicus4]

Hi Lloyd. Little slow tonight, isn't it?

[@user-uq4gr5nl5o]

Yes, it is, Mr Torrance. What will it be?

[@rocky8281]

I thought I was the only one who thought this

[@nealclark2424]

HAHAHAHAHAHA

[@gello8518]

@@rocky8281 it's loosely inspired by that scene actually.

[@aceystar1478]

@@gello8518 what exactly do you mean by inspired. The song already existed and none of the preexisting songs for that movie were edited, that I remember.

[@rxhx]

Am I the only one who feels SPACE when listening to this. Like floating around out there forever, in total bliss

[@aceynth7853]

upon this world?

[@rxhx]

@@aceynth7853 möh?

[@aceynth7853]

wut

[@rxhx]

@@aceynth7853 yeah!

[@sashamsf821]

Or under water

[@vibrantgleam]

This picture EXACTLY describes this song wth. I can picture myself walking in snow while listening to this song. It's kind of like that feeling when winter comes and it starts getting colder. It's closer to Christmas and you're thinking about the new year.

[@daphnec.5080]

YES I FINALLY FOUND THIS SONG I HAD THE END STUCK IN MY HEAD FOR MONTHS

[@normanclatcher]

As is Harry Connick Jr's.

[@caretakerenjoyer9762]

the last thing i remember doing with my cat before he ran away is listening to this song while hugging him. i miss him so much

[@CROWIntruder]

I really hope you find them soon

[@caretakerenjoyer9762]

@Arango why the hell would you say that

[@lordroy88]

Im so sorry. I hope you find your cat soon, if you haven’t already.

[@caretakerenjoyer9762]

@@lordroy88 i'm doing alright now, i've accepted that he's gone now

[@lordroy88]

@@caretakerenjoyer9762 I’m so sorry, wherever your cat may be I hope they are safe and healthy.

[@rocky8281]

This really gives me “The Shining” vibes and I love it

[@darrielaiman1167]

Isn't The Caretaker & their albums are inspired by The Shining

[@vollithe]

@@darrielaiman1167 Yep

[@18nip]

i love this sm,,,, it makes me so sorrowful but like, in a comforting way

[@human6638]

kind of like lavender town ngl

[@TonChinKanKun]

This hurts me deeply for some reason. Thank you.

[@LittleFishChan]

It is so wonderful to listen to the gradual progression that leads to his magnum opus of "Everywhere At The End Of Time", although I am VERY fond of "Stairway to the Stars".

[@numberminecraftfan]

I'm in fucking tears

[@silviabenussi4890]

the pure sound of memories.....

[@thecarebear2360]

This is my favorite song by the caretaker. WAGROAR is definitely my favorite album.

[@dawn7020]

y e s

[@lordroy88]

Hello carebear!

[@devinmcfarland4379]

the last contact of our lips still haunts me, slipping into my conscious, this solace past that beautiful day in may, it is comforting, but the coffin seems more comfortable

[@WilfrePancakes]

I want to get lost in the world that this picture shows while stardust plays in the sky on repeat

[@denniswilliams3999]

It's hard life, to live and be apart in 😅😊😮😢❤

[@inthenameofpunk3895]

Beautiful piece 🖤🖤

[@rachdi7145]

Empty places and this song playing in background

[@blopersan2114]

This really makes feel like I'm sublime beyond loss

[@snoolee7950]

Has the original Blade Runner aesthetic.

[@fridolin64]

And Shining too...

[@ianazhulavska2420]

@@fridolin64 I've been searching for music that would be in a mood of overlook hotel ball and accidentilly found this treasure while surfing through doom jazz! "Camaraderie at arms length" - is in overlook style too!

[@fridolin64]

@@ianazhulavska2420 Yes yes, i know it very well, cause i've several albums of The Caretaker. And naturally i lke so much the Leyland Kirby's music...

[@PungentTowelWasTaken]

still listen to this one. such a beautiful transformation of the original sample

[@satanicgears7374]

This song, it feels, sleepy, like a song you'd listen to while in the process of waking up where only half of your mind is awake, functional, and aware of the music

[@numberminecraftfan]

How it feels when you've lost everything and its all your fault

[@normanclatcher]

Subete anata no sei desu.

[@klord3677]

OK.

[@leafyclass]

@@normanclatcher わからない

[@Desperado420]

I’ve been looking for this version of the song for a while, glad I found it again.

[@ianplace9977]

I feel relaxed ...at peace you can say -Wednesday 17 February 2021

[@Nikolyai1000]

Великолепно! Браво!

[@donnaquixote7538]

Such a lovely song, such a lovely picture.

[@helentran204]

Lovely. This song feels warm and cozy, and feels like It's Just a Burning Memory without the heaviness, as someone else mentioned.

[@JayRivers07]

End’s credits song from the pandemic.

[@a-s-greig]

As fireworks appear over the Ukrainian sky.

[@ThisiswhyWecanthavenicethings]

It’s like holding hands with a ghost

[@grayden4138]

Evokes a haunting, ethereal feeling of something out of time. Like its bleeding through cracks in time. Like something out of The Shining.

[@jeb3183]

This song makes my pain hurt more in a delicious way sumhow

[@PIFEIGENBAUM.]

i cant stop watching this

[@zwerty007]

"not too much artistry here" Due to the inability to reply to old comments on the new youtube, I shall put it out there that the artistry is strong here, but it is conceptual. It's not Dada music, but think the Duchamp Fountain sort of thing, for a rather vulgar comparison.

[@j.clementec.m.1558]

hmmm, odd how I can reply to you 5 years later

[@danieldh_]

2020 now

[@maagnatism678]

pandemic now

[@NepetaLeijon]

@@maagnatism678 who cares lmao

[@youtubeisevil]

His newer albums are better, if you are looking forward to something less conceptual and more musically better.

[@Markuswas]

This is actually beautiful, and actually made me tear up.

[@TheOldenMemories]

I love this

[@JackOpulski]

Now this song haunts my reverie on lonely nights

[@DragonGod6643]

Oh how malevolent days are today, as such why I appreciate these old things, much of simpler.

[@positive.juice.apartment]

this song sounds like having a life review during death and finally remembering what childhood felt like

[@Fierke100]

perfect

[@lorenzo3119]

Slow dancing this with your loved one is an undescribable feeling. I love you so much my darling

[@shinyshark2247]

Nat King Cole - Stardust. This is one of my favourite songs.

[@KeyUploads]

this one is Stardust by Marjorie Stedeford, but thx for sharing!

[@Doggystyle944]

i enjoyed this moment, thankyou

[@munt6795]

[@Gerfolnrad]

14 years.......

[@BobbyNerd]

😍😍😍😍

[@urieldelbarco]

jsjjsjaj vengo de las historias de instagram que dejaste el nombre de las canciones y te encuentro xd pd: hermosa canción para ambientar a mi amigo indrid cold

[@user-kr4fz4fr8j]

LMAO, weren't you the dude that commented that one quote on "All You Are Going To Want To Do Is Get Back There"?

[@Omicron-vz1wq]

This is absolutely beautiful

[@munt6795]

I'm literally crying

[@anthonyfrew1571]

It is a winter night at the edge of a wood - in the distance from an empty building - Stardust- is playing

[@PPello]

Thank you:)

[@hwiatslgeord2887]

you are welcome

[@ArielSaturn]

stay safe out there ❤️

[@munt6795]

I remember when this had 70k views, man this is crazy

[@ArcticLightsFlamingPhoenix]

This song feels like the perfect midpoint between the haunted ballroom and dementia in the caretakers discography

[@ilxtus]

taking a stroll beneath the boundaries of my soul, the sounds of distant horns reign as the day we became.

[@j82200]

What nice way to end such a dread inducing album.

[@henloimbremd3062]

This feels like winter and a nostalgic street... And this taste like caramel and bread...

[@goobi3780]

You’ve always been the caretaker

[@nielskivioq1168]

I’m sitting here on the edge of harm, listing to corrupted pasts, although the song has its charms, the dopamine won’t last.

[@Goat_Eye]

I think you'll be just fine dear

[@ovucaa]

i found love

[@blackwhite8487]

მეც :D

[@blackwhite8487]

მიხარია რომ ქართველებს ვხედავ ასეთ კარგ მუსიკებზე ;)

[@ovucaa]

კი ძმაო, იხარე . ასევე

[@davidbrent8031]

Sometimes when my thoughts get a little cloudy I come here. Helps me de-stress and readjust.

[@dubstrobe3939]

One of my all time fave Caretaker tracks

[@davidbrent8031]

Hauntingly beautiful

[@Sonicthehedgeho4]

This artist really helps me get through hard times, i love these types of songs edit: during and the month i left this comment was probably the hardest times i took in my life, glad its better now (september 2021 is hell)

[@fluffcake]

I feel both extremely old and fresh and rebirthed while listening to this Could this be the song that plays to the waiting room to the afterlife?

[@lordroy88]

We can only hope so yes

[@dhull1776]

This makes me thank of the past

[@PIFEIGENBAUM.]

0:11 i imagine a nonexistent piano over here

[@ayocosmoo]

I am slowly fading away My body, no longer in reign At the end of the day I will be in vain

[@giannivalentini9633persona]

timeless.

[@WSCP4209]

It’s already 2022 I’ve been replaced..

[@Legacy.y]

now 2023