History YMMV / LeylandKirby

** With Music/BoardsOfCanada, who were frequent collaborators of Kirby long before his internet fame

** The "[[HellIsThatNoise Hell Sirens]]" in "H1—Post Awareness Confusions" from Stage 4. Was the Caretaker a war veteran or a civilian who lived through a war? Otherwise, why else are they in their memories? It also might represent Sundown Syndrome since it occurs in Stage 4 (or in the 7-staged dementia process, Stage 5)

** That's just the ''Caretaker moniker''. If you want to hear everything Leyland Kirby has put together, you will have to look through [[IHaveManyNames many one-off projects]], including Butcher Claus, Billy Ray Cyrix, and his collaborations under Alien Porno Midgets ([[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer no seriously]]--the man who made ''Everywhere at the End of Time'' once was part of "Alien Porno Midgets").

* MainstreamObscurity: ''Everywhere at the End of Time'' received acclaim in the late 2010s and early 2020s for being a musical representation of how dementia feels and how heartbreaking it is to experience. Most who are interested in it will have heard "[[FirstInstallmentWins It's Just a Burning Memory]]", too. However, the utter despair of the series' theme, the way that the music quickly degenerates into little more than discordant, loud droning sounds after the first hour or so, and the sheer length of it (''six and a half hours'') make it ''very'' mentally taxing and time-consuming to get through. No wonder most people haven't listened to it past the first few tracks.

*** The album gets its name from the final line of a message written by Fisher for the liner notes of the 2005 Caretaker album ''Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia''. While it was originally the final note of a thematic analysis of the album, its reuse following his death can be interpreted as a farewell message to Fisher from the Caretaker.

* HypeBacklash: The extreme acclaim of ''Everywhere'' has led to a lot of this among people who don't see it (and the Caretaker's music as a whole) as nearly as profound as it's propped up to be. This was not helped by the project's length and the excessive amount of memes surrounding it (especially when [=TikTok=] attempted to make a trend of it). Case and point: while music site [=RateYourMusic=] had praised ''Everywhere'' more and more with each album, even giving it a rare score of above 4.00, the eventual popularity and constant talk of it let to petty downvoting, discussions and snarky remarks about it, and overall denouncing it as never being good, leading to its score dropping.

** ''Everywhere'' has been treated by some online circles as something of a {{creepypasta}} or "cursed album", with a [=TikTok=] endurance challenge being made out of it, with people seeing how far through the entire album they can get. This has earned quite a bit of backlash among Caretaker fans, who see it as irresponsible if not outright disrespectful handling of what was composed as a very serious piece of art. This has come to the point where Leyland Kirby himself [[MemeAcknowledgement had acknowledged this]], and while he understands why fans are upset with the challenges and memes, he is otherwise satisfied that this in turn [[ApprovalOfGod gives more attention to the music]] and spreads knowledge of dementia itself to a wider audience.
** The overlap of ''Everywhere'' with ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkin'' is mostly FriendlyFandoms, with the latter fully understanding the album series' overall meaning. But due to the sudden popularity of the mod that created the link, a distinct subsection of fans seemingly [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint romanticizing the condition and memory loss]], and even attempting to invoke RuleOfFun to give the album's narrative a true happy ending[[note]]Which, unfortunately, [[ForegoneConclusion is impossible given the nature of dementia]].[[/note]] through ''Friday Night Funkin''' has emerged. Naturally, this has resulted in a lot of friction between said group and the greater communities of both works, who are accusing the former of trivializing the condition and insinuating that it is reversible or has a cure (it does not).

* FriendlyFandoms: With ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkin'', surprisingly enough, thanks to one of the [[VideoGame/EverywhereAtTheEndOfFunk mods made for the game]] being a crossover with ''Everywhere at the End of Time''.

* NightmareFuel: [[NightmareFuel/TheCaretaker Now has its own page.]] For good reason.

** It's played straight within ''Everywhere'', though. The very first track in the series, "It's Just a Burning Memory", is generally the one people will pick when it comes to creating parodies of and references to the album.

** From his work outside the project, there's [=V/Vm=]'s "The Lady In Red (Is Dancing With Meat)" a rework of Chris [=DeBurgh=]'s "Lady In Red" that did well enough to get radioplay in and of itself. Supposedly, even [=DeBurgh=] owns a copy.

** If the interpretation of ''Take care. It's a desert out there...'' as taking place after ''Stage 6'' and representing the afterlife is put into count, the entirety of ''Take care'' can be heartwarming too.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The choir that ends the entirety of ''Everywhere at the End of Time'' sounds a lot like the old hymn "Lord, Let Me Know Mine End". Although some fans erroneously attribute it as such, it isn't, and the actual sample is still unknown. It also strongly resembles the ''Quam olim Abrahae promisisti et semini eius'' fugue from the Requiem by Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart. At the tail end of 2020, the song was finally revealed by sample finders to be a German hymn commonly attributed to Music/JohannSebastianBach named ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDxAs9N9wks Lasst mich ihn nur noch einmal küssen]]'', although the specific choir sample Kirby used is still unknown. The choir sample is used in various tracks, including "Friends past reunited" in "Selected Memories From The Haunted Ballroom", "A stairway to the stars", Segment 2 in "Deleted scenes / forgotten dreams (part 4)", and various live shows. By January 2021, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jecujWqVEI8 another video was uploaded of the sample closest to the one used thus far]].

** It's played straight within ''Everywhere'', though. The very first song in the series, "It's Just a Burning Memory", is generally the one people will pick when it comes to creating parodies of and references to the album.

** It's played straight within ''Everywhere'', though. The very first song in the series, "It's Just A Burning Memory", is generally the one people will pick when it comes to creating parodies of and references to the album.

** The overlap of ''Everywhere'' with ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkin'' is mostly FriendlyFandoms, with the latter fully understanding the album series' overall meaning. But due to the sudden popularity of the mod that created the link, a distinct subsection of fans seemingly [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint romanticizing the condition and memory loss]], and even attempting to invoke RuleOfFun to give the album's narrative a true happy ending[[note]]Which, unfortunately, [[ForegoneConclusion is impossible given the nature of dementia]].[[/note]] through ''Friday Night Funkin''' has emerged. Naturally, this has resulted in a lot of friction between said group and the greater communities of both works, who are accusing the former of trivializing the condition and insinuating that [[CriticalResearchFailure it is reversible or has a cure]] (it does not).

** The "[[HellIsThatNoise Hell Sirens]]" in "H1—Post Awareness Confusions" from Stage 4. Was the Caretaker a war veteran or a civilian who lived through a war? Otherwise, why else are they in their memories?