Explaining an "Everywhere At The End Of Time" Iceberg 

Fun fact: During "A place in the world fades away" if you listen close enough, you can hear what sounds like beeping from an electrocardiogram (the heart rate monitor at hospitals)

The "It's just a dream" thing is actually kind of neat to think about, since with that context the album can still make somewhat of sense even if it's not the context that was intended. A normal, happy dream, with things slowly becoming more 'off' until the stage 4 sections where the events reach uncanny valley levels of dread as it shifts to a flat-out nightmare. Stage 5 is where things become so abstract that the scenery changes every time you look at something for any period of time and everything just defies logic, and stage 6 can be interpreted as sleep paralysis, until your mind briefly falls asleep again (the choir) until you abruptly wake up (minute of silence) as you try to get re-accustomed to your surroundings.

i think "museum edition" is talking about a french art thing where they had ivan seal's art and caretakers music playing on speakers. they had a seperate cd edition of everywhere an empty bliss there, that might be what it's about

The Amnesia Period refers to three albums Leyland made in the early 2000s that portrays his Caretaker persona suffering from amnesia

“It’s just a burning memory” sounds like a Halloween unusual effect from TF2.

"The Amnesia Era" references a series of albums created by James Leyland Kirby in the mid 2000s Theoretically Pure Antrograde Amnesia Additional Amnesiac Memories Deleted Scenes/Forgotten Dreams and Persistent Repetition Of Phrases

The Stage 3 cover art is titled "Hag." I interpret it as a hagfish and the slime they secrete to deter predators from eating them and possibly escape. So in the context of EATEOT, it is referring to the character trying to grasp on their memories, but the memories cloud themselves and disappear through the confusion.

The album "Take Care, It's a Desert Out There" has been seen by some fans as a theoretical stage 7. This is mostly because it was an album quite literally made to represent kirby's view on death and honor Mark Fisher. It's a very lonely experience, especially considering the almost barren noise that makes up the album, and in theory, how the Caretaker would be in the afterlife having nothing left. Still a lovely video and I enjoy the work you've put in

I believe the final 6 minutes are the character’s favourite song, since that’s the longest memory someone can hold on too.

Oh jeez, this album is still booming with interest and curiosity. In fact I'm glad this is being reacted to/explained. I want to hear everyone's opinion in the project lel

I think each cover represents your mind looking at objects differently while you have dementia. Stage 1 is clearly a magazine, but stage 5 is what looks like clouds on stairs. Stage 4's cover could also mean how you look at people differently, as your mind progresses.

i was literally just in the middle of one of your videos, and i opened your channel to see this uploaded just now. i didnt believe it was minutes ago i thought it said months

Layton and Johnston’s has a lot of songs in the caretaker. A2, A3, A5, B2, and B4 I just find that kind of cool

I don't blame you that a lot of stage 6 is songs that are shown in it are very difficult to listen to. Just speed them up, and you might be able to recognize heartaches in it. Also the Hell sirens can actually be heard pretty clearly, but there is no siren bit, as far as I'm aware, but you can hear that distinct clashing sound during the hell sirens section being played in Stage 5 and Stage 6.

I feel like if gen z got dementia there last words would be “creeper, aw man..” and then die.

So happy to see people haven’t forgotten about EATEOT. Keep up the amazing work!

the amnesia thing might be referring to how the caretaker after the stairway to the stars project focused on amnesia, and then alzheimers

The stage 3 cover art is supposed to be a nursing home potted plant. Like the one in the background of this video. Just distorted because of how deteriorated the brain is.

The museum edition is about the second/cd version of his last album

Everywhere at the tip of the burg

The Amenisa one I think references to the one of the Caretakers older albums, which is about Amenisa, But the one Kirby used for that Caretaker album was a one where the person could not make new memories at all, and kinda live the same day over and over and over again.

18:48 the amnesia period is the discography of The Caretaker from 2005 to 2008. In those years, Kirby made albums incentrated on amnesia (in order, Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia, Deleted Scenes/Forgotten Dreams and Persistent Repetition Of Phrases). In fact, in the storyline of The Caretaker, the character has suffered amnesia in those years (before dementia started to get in). P.s. I'm sorry for my bad English

imagine he just put my album at the very bottom considering like 200 people know about it rn

16:46 the amnesia period refers to when the caretaker briefly made albums about amnesia, the most famous being "Deleted Scenes, Forgotten Dreams".

14:38 I love that Drifting time misplaced is on the background

i saw the original iceberg and wanted to do something with it but got lazy so it's nice to see someone actually cover it

Bro you're so underrated it makes me mad- remember me when you get famous-

Yay! Thank you for I have seen people doing this but in their version there is just theories, thank you for making this!

4:42 just saying, from this part do not get the idea to sleep to this album. EATEOT is not an album to sleep to especially if you have sleep paralysis. You will most likely have really bad nightmares

The thing abt E2 and the buildup I think could refer to the beginning of Heartaches, the outro is a bit similar to the song's intro. To my knowledge, Heartaches only appears once in stage 6, and not in R1, also not the right cover of the song

I think the Carebear is kinda deserving of a double slot, sure EATBON is his most popular album, but hes created quite a few, including ones where he got members of his discord server to make individual songs.

The hell sirens appear in p1 a brutal bliss beyond this empty defeat, but only the crashes. "Museum edition" is probably the ivan seal museum which is a museum of ivan seals art with Leyland kirbys music

Really well done video. Good luck in the future with your channel

18:04 I believe this refers to Stage 6’s alternate cover that was handed out to people who went to some museum exhibit for the guy who made the album covers for EATEOT

the amnesia period spans 3 releases of The Caretaker and comprises of: Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia Additional Amensiac Memories Persistent Repetition Of Phrases. also Memory 1 of TPAA really sounds like an air conditioner.

How come you only have about 900 subs!?!?!?!?? Dude you're so underrated :0

16:46 Layland Kirby use to make similar music for amnesia. You can still find it on RU-vid.

The love story is where the stories hit the actual ice berg.

would love to see your takes on heaven and hell eateot fan projects!

I always thought the stage 5 art was a woman on stairs holding a cane

5:46 The hell sirens are sampled from an album by Mantovani and his orchestra called Latin rendezvous. The audio of hell sirens is 0:23 in the song Granada. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Jf1L7rAG_Aw.html

The Chrono Trigger entry could be referencing a fan project between the two on RU-vid by lavos

Great video! I saw you got a little confused by the "Chrono Trigger EATEOT" entry, which was a project I had made in late 2020 where I took Chrono Trigger music and created a new EATEOT using them, similar to the "Minecraft EATEOT" also featured here. And yes, it was inspired by the area "The End of Time" haha. It was super fun to make, but not super good quality wise. So I have since been remastering with help from the creator of the iceberg you featured. The reason you probably didn't find anyone talking about it is for a period of time my channel was deleted, and along with it the original project (and the remastered parts). But since then I've uploaded the completed stages 1-4 of the project, and I thought I'd share that. Again, super good video!

I thought dead bees was about stage 3 cover.

18:01 I'm not sure either but It could be referencing Ivan Seal's Art Museum

I love the thumbnail!

Early stage 1 NATMOS (before it gets unsettling and distorted) is a vibe.

Hey, don’t know if someone cleared this up, but with the mention of the amnesia period, the caretaker had two albums about anterograde amnesia, specifically one that goes over 70 something memories of someone with the condition.

You forgot elusive sunshine is actually in K1 Stage 5 And the Sample is Laura

At 6:45 - The last six minutes of Stage 6 is "Jesu Christo" from St. Luke Passion from J.S. Bach. (I discovered this from Pad Chennington's "A Deep Dive into The Caretaker's Everywhere at the End of Time." This particular nugget popped up at 1:56:10, as the description from one of his collaborators discusses the hunt for the samples.)

Please see this Amnesia: the caretaker released another memory themed album before EATEOT called "theoretically pure antarograde amnesia" Museum edition: Ivan seal hosted his paintings in an event called "the object hurts the space" and during it they played a supposedly different version of the album

My friend made this iceberg :)

The love lyrics are kinda confirmed, look at the INA’s Kirby interview (ina’s a French RU-vid channel but the interview is in English) At one point, he sings a love song in French for a concert and it’s really dark, like a terrifying and depressing love song

7:57 I actually mistook it for a real photo the first time I saw it lol

Everywhere an empty bliss was actually published the same day stage 6 released, not in between 5 and 6

Omg your videos should get more views !

It was an interesting video, although I'd love to reply to each of these entries... Stage 1: It's just a burning memory: pretty straightforward, it's an amazing song and has a very high re-listening factor. In this album, there are three different covers of Heartaches. The most famous one is Al Bowlly's, at the very start, stage 1, and also appearing in stage 3 (E2 - And heart breaks). Another one is Seger Ellis' cover, which famously appears in stage 2 (C3 - What does it matter how my heart breaks) and in Stage 3 (three times, F4 - Burning despair does ache, F5 - Aching cavern without lucidity and F8 - Mournful camaraderie). As for the third cover, being Guy Lombardo's cover, it only appears in the post-awareness stages. Sampling throughout the album: It's very simple to say that, yes, the samples are very well important. They're easy to find in stages 1-3, but then gets more difficult to do so as we enter the post-awareness stages, aside from a few moments when we recognize a melody, such as in G1 Post-Awareness Confusions, where we can hear a bit of Seger Ellis' Heartaches through. Final six minutes: very discussed upon, and it could have several meanings: the character's last moments of clarity before death, terminal lucidity, the passage of the character to the afterlife, or the funeral of said character. Stage 2: Terminal lucidity: Yeah, pretty self-explanatory, and the likely culprit for death is pneumonia or organ failure due to the effects of dementia. The love story: a pretty lovely theory to be honest. Imagine what were the character's greatest moments of their life. The Caretaker is dead: Yep, that moniker is dead. Was it just a dream? : It stems from the first moment of clarity in K1 - Plaque advanced entanglements which uses two samples according to several sample guides. One of them is Dick Powell's Was it Just a Dream? and is one of my favourite moments in the project, as well as my most viewed moment in Stage 5 followed by the piano moment in N1 - Sudden time regression into isolation (Layton and Johnstone's Piano Medley, My Ohio Home). Samples outside of Everywhere at the end of time: Yeah, there are a lot of these samples worth listening to. These are what introduced me to more of Al Bowlly's songs. What is the album cover for stage 3? : Yes, it's named "Hag" as pointed out by @breasTiE last year and it's really hard to tell whether it is a plant or not. Some say it is a deformation of the stage 2 flower pot into a weird tree. The Hell sirens: Yeah, it is really hard to know what it represents, but someone pointed out that it is meant to represent an episode of sundowning, common during the middle and late stages of dementia (and therefore the Hell Sirens also appear not only in section E of H1 - Post-Awareness Confusions but also in stages 5 and 6). The last song symbolizes death: Pretty much what you said. Ivan Seal: He is an amazing artist, it's worth seeing his works. Heck, some of them are used for the Caretaker Discord server. Stage 3: The back of a canvas: To add to this, the blue tapes are probably meant to represent the bounds caused by dementia: that person is unable to express their identity, because their condition restricted all methods of communication at this point in clinical stage 7 patients. Essentially, they look like the borders of a canvas that is nonexistent, as in no state of coherence. Death essentially frees this person from this state, expressing their identity via their belongings that were left behind, as well as their impact on the world around them and their friends and family. Their impact would be everywhere at the end of time. Final song buildup: The organ sound in stage 6 is an unknown sample but recognizable melody, named "A Song of Sunshine" on organ, which is the only component of Section B, starting while Section A-b (which has Stage 3's F3 - Internal bewildered World) fades away. This one represents either a deep state of empty bliss, the actual moment of terminal lucidity, or even the ascension of the patient to heaven (this was very well represented in Context Switch's R1 Place in the World fades away sample guide, which you should check out). How was Post-Awareness Confusions made?: Hmm, mystery, it may have been a program known as Pitchmap that was the magic behind it. It is quite difficult to master this in other programs such as Audacity. 6 month gap: Chronologically and narratively, it makes sense because it shows how far the character has fallen into their condition. An empty bliss beyond this World: I love this album. My favourite track is Libet's delay, using Layton and Johnstone's "Goodnight, my Beautiful" as the sample, also a favourite of mine, with the piano, oh my, so lovely, giving happy vibes, just like Rosy retrospection from the 2006 Persistent repetitions of phrases album. Some of the tracks would fit perfectly in stages 1 through 3. Hell Sirens in stages 5 and 6: Yeah, easier to hear in stage 5, but in stage 6 the crashing sounds are barely audible. Everywhere, an empty bliss: Yeah, they are outtakes and scrapped content that could have made it in the project, but couldn't make it. Notably, it contains wax cylinder recordings as well as other recordings. One of the tracks, And bliss everywhere bliss, is considered to be an alternate ending for Everywhere at the end of time. It has a deeper meaning, it's like it fits more perfectly the theme of terminal lucidity, but it doesn't have that much of an emotional impact as the actual ending to me. Other tracks are very distorted samples that would fit in the post-awareness stages, such as "Advanced plaque camaraderie" and "Hidden minimal sea". Minecraft, but it's Everywhere at the end of time: Yeah, it feels only appropriate to have the genre expanded to Minecraft, especially using C418's tracks. I could think of an updated version that would include Lena Raine's tracks from the Nether Update as well as the Caves and Cliffs Update and the Wild Update. I could imagine the sundowning as an encounter with the Warden in the ancient city ruins in the Deep Dark biome. Warden encounters, for any deep dark explorer, would also be a PTSD moment. Continued in reply...

17:19 R.I.P Mark Fisher

Why does this iceberg have six levels that correspond to the six stages of EATEOT? An iceberg would work differently.

7:55 "WAIT IT'S NOT?"

D E A D B E E S

600th like. LETS GO BABY!

14:30 Someone please give me the song so I can find it and binge it because it's stuck in my headdd

3:05 T H E C A R E T A K E R I S D E A D

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You sound like ScareTheater

7:44 Not this again. You can tell who actually does research or just regurgitates what they hear from other videos. This is NOT the back of a canvas. It is the front of a board on which a canvas would usually sit, the tape making a square to act as a guide for the edges of the painting. Only, here, there is no canvas on the board. The tape guide is there but the painting and even the medium that the painting is supposed to be on, is missing. The idea is that stage 6 has no album art. "Stage 6 is without description." as the album description says, so therein, there is no album cover either. Just a blank slate where album art usually WOULD be.

Can you talk about All The Grand Memories Of All The Lovelly Years by Dante Timberword, same owner of EATEOT with voices.

kool

Deconstruction is for drunk philosophers... who here found the caretaker searching for trippy shit to fit their mood? Thanks, but I'm better off just listening without knowing.

Yes

I swear this person knows less then i do

yooooooo

13:09

Early! -er

Fun fact: Caretaker made a new album

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First haha

hey digital saloon i made my own album on youtube check it out or smth

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