Ten years really has flown by hasn't it? I wish nothing but the best for the people that visited this song and the people who are now just discovering it.

Music for when your life is going nowhere.

“You only live once” Thank god man I don’t wanna repeat the process again 😹😹😹

My dog died two years ago and this song helped me cope, I was at my football game where I had to carry our defense. I had the entire team on my shoulders, nothing I could do to stop them. We lost by a lot. I was on my way home where my mom called my dad and broke the news. A few minutes later my dad told me. Saddest day of my life still. If your reading this I hope you have a great life, thank you for your time.

This feels like waking up from a dream where you were happy

Does anyone else get that sinking feeling in their stomach? And why is it oddly comforting???

I listen to this when my family is arguing. If anyone is going through heart break, loss, illness, or problems that can mentally and physically hurt you. I'm always here. Keep your head up through the hard and struggling times a person can experience. Remember, things don't last forever.

12 years and it's still beautiful and comforting.

such a beautiful song. duster is a constant on my ipod.

This song is what it sounds like to give up. To stop trying after so long. To realize you never tried hard enough.

I'm watching this at night in my bed. I am not depressed it's just I feel as if I am sinking. It feels like my thoughts just melted and I feel like I'm being engulfed in a pool of calm.

I've been "okay" for a long while now.. this song reminded me that I'm NOT REALLY "okay".. just yet.. But I'll get there, I promised that to myself. I pray and hope for everyone who struggles to not give up on themselves, especially for your loved ones

drowning in sorrow but not being able to shed a single tear is such a damning feeling, the state of being hollowed from the inside out.

"Well, the uh truth comes out. I never been autistic, I work 40 hours a week to support my parents. This has all been a trick, you have been trolled."

im not sad or anything, i just play this song to chill or to think about all the happy times are the ones to come

How. How did all that time pass so quickly. The only things that make me smile are memories. I have to move on but I can’t. I come hear every night after having a bad day and think about those days, how precious they were. I miss it, I miss how live used to be.

I swear I'm not depressed I just like this kinda music

In another universe, people would be commenting on this video that Chris Chan was one of the greatest trolls of all time and how they miss the "good ol days of the internet."

I have a medical school interview in a couple of hours. I'm just sitting around in my study room, listening to this song on repeat, reflecting on everything that has led me to this point. I just hope that everything will be alright.

After building up relationships and friendships with many people all to have them burn down, I can’t trust anyone anymore. I just feel so numb. This song perfectly describes that feeling.

“Finally, you’re awake Chris! That fall looked pretty bad. What? Trolls? Idea Guys? It’s October 26th 2007. Damn, you must have hit your head pretty hard. I hope you’re okay to go to that Game Place later like you always do to play your card games.”

I love how it has that shaky, worn out tape sound.

Driving home late at night. One of my weekly runs. I think of you all. You tragically beautiful people I once knew. Your smiling faces faded, now blurred in mental pictures I took of us They tell you to enjoy your younger years The leave out the part where you can never go back Pressure build in my chest I'm going to scream I don't I look straight ahead at the oncoming headlights They blind me to the road ahead And I think nothing of it

I was with her finally and got to touch her soft hand and feel her soft cheek that i used to kiss , I was gonna cry of happiness, then i woke up. 6 months passed and it still hurts to see the girl who used to love you like hell treat you like nobody

"i'll be able to speak after a stiff drink would it break my panic? would the sweat stop pouring out? slow and deliberate with her words she'll walk through my heart those eyes light a fire in my stomach fall apart from the inside out" this destroys me, every single time

this used to be my dads song. i remember hearing it on those long road trips that led into the middle of nowhere. i would look outside the window and just think. i was happy, i was innocent. i was pure and free. no worries. his arms interlocked with mine. i miss him, i miss the kind of person he used to be. the day he left was the day that he died. i miss the old him, the person who would make me laugh when i was sad, the one who made sure i was always ok. he was my best friend yet now he’s just a stranger.

12 years and is still as beautiful as the day I found it.

This feels oddly comforting, nostalgic. It’s like going back to all the years when you were younger, happier. I feel like this would be a checkpoint in life, seeing how much you’ve grown and learned.

We truly live in a society

this is most personal song i have ever listened to

about a month ago on prom night I stayed at home and listened to this on repeat. I don’t regret not going, I just wish things had been different so that I could have had a fun and normal time at prom like everyone else

This song makes me feel content, like a wrap up to a journey.

I came from a Chris Chan meme, and I stayed because this actually is becoming one of my favorite songs

Words can’t describe how beautiful this song is

I heard this song when i was lowest in my life. I felt depressed. Not anything horrible like deep depression. Just this sinking feeling that things arent gonna end well. And there was absolutely nothing i could do about it. I would shut myself in my room and cry. If it wasn't that, then i would carry this feeling of dread everywhere i went. This is a reminder that if you ever feel like this, please, please talk to someone. I was stubborn enough to keep to myself. Dont be like me.

Listening to this after broken up of 3years of serious relationship really hit different….

In regards to Chris Chan, just found out Stratosphere was released on the same day as Chris’s 16th birthday feb 24th 1998.

Funny how life works, my dad used to play this on a CD after fetching me early from school because I had a bad day. I have been listening to it since 2005 and it's funny how people are only now discovering it because of Chris Chan of all things. This song reminds me of home, and I'm glad more people are finding it.

Slideshow edits finna go crazy

This song feels like all of your friends/family left and you're finally able to let out all of your emotions that you're hiding from them

The mixture of late 2000s nostalgia and the sweet yet crestfallen tune really tugs the heart strings on ya. I found this song even sadder when I heard it, on the Chris Chan good ending video. It gives a nice “what if” vibe.

This song sounds like going through the worst type of acceptance; the acceptance that life will never be the same again. As you sit on the bus during a gray October evening you reminisce about the few good memories of your childhood. Realizing just how many bad roads you took in life, you think about all the possible happy endings that could’ve happened if you just decided to not be so hard on yourself, or others, or if you just knew that things would get better. Knowing that what’s done is done, you sit on the couch and watch your mother grow older and older, and before you know it, you’re alone. Either way, this song is a masterpiece.

I listened to this when I broke up with my ex and he was the one that first showed me this song. I used to first listen to it in different uplifted mood, it didn’t hit the same after that if there was a emotion to attach this song it’s “what if?”

This song has really made me think about all the generations of humans there have been creating chaos and causing peace They say you only live once but I believe that we all have lived past lives and made a footprint in history but we just can't remember who we once were It's like my theory on dreams about how they're faint windows into a alternate reality where we see through the eyes of a different version of ourselves, but as it stands dreams are only dreams and me, I'm already living mine even though my life has been cut so short at such a young age For the sake of anyone reading this, you were someone who did something great in history, so why not continue it by continuing and shining like the stars you are

this is just a bad dream, Christopher

man, this music... I feel exactly like that music. Empty. Overwhelmed. I listen to it over and over again all day long and I never get tired of it.

I just found my favoutite song, first time listening, first time dropping a tear, it just sounds so full of emotions..

Life don’t hit no more, life hasn’t been the same after 2020..

This music is why I’m still alive. It transcends serenity for me.

I had a cat named duster and she died from upper respiratory disease..whenever I listen to duster all I can do is cry. every one of their songs remind me of her..I'll never forget my duster.

I FINALLY FOUND IT FINALLY I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR A LONG TIME

I was hanging out with one of my best friends yesterday, we were listening to some music and i recommended this and we ended up sitting at the park in the dark talking about the deepest stuff it was amazing

I wonder if the folks in the Chris Chad timeline know just how good they have it.

My favorite song of all time. I've been waiting AGES for someone to finally post this on UKposts. Thank you so much!

I literally am listening to this music while reading the comments and thinking of my life, and I swear I started to cry

I’m glad to only live once. I won’t want to go through that again 😹😹😹😹

GOING SKYDIVING WITHOUT A PARACHUTE 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣💯

this is the pinnacle of music

Would I be able to speak after a stiff drink? Would it break my panic? Would the sweat stop pouring out? Slow and deliberate with her words She'll walk through my heart Those eyes light a fire in my stomach Fall apart from the inside out

It's raining outside and I'm at my lowest point all alone with myself thinking of ending everything

Thought I’d comment here because I just wanted to get this story out of me. A year ago a relationship ended with a girl I’d had a crush on for three years, a girl I thought I was gonna marry, first real girlfriend I ever had. We started out as happy as could be, nearly instantly in love, then her mother was diagnosed with a terminal illness and she graduated college and had to take a job out of state. The stress from her mother made her depressed and irritable and mean and the potential distance also didn’t help things. It ended up in a spiral where we were both hurting each other but desperately didn’t want the relationship to end because of how much we loved each other. I held on well past when we were still healthy, then one day, I let go. A dream fizzled out and we went our separate ways as I went to study abroad. We just had a drink together for the first time in a year. We had both moved on and had reached the point where we could platonically enjoy each other’s company. It was really nice. That was yesterday. Today, I found this song and I cried. I’m alright now, and I’ve got big plans for the future, but a part of me will always fantasize about that first love I had with her and the life I might’ve had with her.

It was all just a big troll. Your faith in humanity is restored, knowing such sagas cannot manifest naturally. It's over.

Here on valentines day..

This song feels like sitting in the corner of your room in the middle of the night in the middle of summer, crying cause…

Special thanks to all the silly trolls everywhere, for the many lulz you have provided

anyone who listens to duster is a friend.

April 23rd 2023... Its never too late to find a tune like this.

This song barley has any words and it still makes me cry just by listening to it.

i cant get enough of this it almost hurts

Someone needs to make a 30 minute loop of this song

This song is literally plucking on my heart strings its so good

You can do the rump shaker huh? the thug shaker. yeah shake that thing.

the only duster song that matters when everyone you love leaves

This song makes me feel safe in a way.

absolutely love this vibe, feels empty yet calming

I love them so much

this son makes me feel some type of way

Whether it be ten years from now, or ten minutes, I always have trouble confronting the future and thinking of how I’ll still be in an endless day in, day out cycle. This helps make that empty feeling inside just a little warm :)

This song gives me flashbacks to whel life was good it reminds me of the people who loved me, thank you

It's not often a comment section on an old upload can showcase of range, from the small subset of old school fans, to the meme-curious. Regardless of how you found it, I'm glad you have. I first discovered this band at 15, not too long after this was uploaded, this was in fact the way I discovered Duster. I'd started some obscure music thread on Newgrounds forever ago, and one of the recommendations was this upload. I can barely remember most of the great music that I found through that thread, but this band stuck. To any of y'all new to this place/know of Duster through more traditional streaming services, you might not understand how little evidence of Duster there was. For me, it was digging through UKposts to find whatever uploads existed, which mostly consisted of this channel's few tracks and one particularly bad vinyl table recording (the version of Me and the Birds that recording yielded is one of my favourite songs on how haunting it was, the OG studio recording removes a lot of that mystery by being a little too clean). Eventually, in late 2012, I stumbled onto a torrent of the base albums in a "complete Duster + associated acts" package, and that was like a revelation. Going from a handful of songs to entire albums was revelatory. Unfortunately, this also coincided with me becoming homeless for a solid year. That megapack was most of what I had to listen to most nights, sleeping in a tent, praying the battery on my cheap ass MP3 player would last longer than the rain overhead, or sitting out by the canals edge, full moon on display. As some strange ritual, when I'd feel my most sad at my situation, I'd start with this song. It sounds so lost and nostalgic when you get past those three clicks of a drumstick, that you would probably find it strange to say my main source of nostalgia from this was to go back to that room of mine, the privileged life I'd led being able to browse the entire catalogue of music history and be able to listen to something other than my MP3 player (yes, I am aware of the irony now, but it's funny how narcissistic and ignorant depression can make you). After a few years, I'd mostly filed Duster to a little section of my brain where just a little hint of a song would recall the entirety of whatever album or EP it was from. To a degree, it was triggering to have those recollections, because they would also bring memories of that time. Each song had it's own memory from how often I would have to replay everything. I don't have that so much now, except for this song. It still takes me back to that room (yes, meta-irony is the best irony). I was crawling through my sub list and recalled this channel instantly. It was quite something reading through this comments section, seeing some genuine emotions in between the memes about a meme and old fans still musing on a key part of their lives. Seeing all the nostalgia on one of the most nostalgic songs in my memory left me feeling compelled to leave something for the next few curious travellers to read. I'm reminded of my time as a hard-core fan, when there was no fan community, they were lost to time and never to return from exile. Since that long time ago, even after finding that torrent collection, their back catalogue as more tapes, masters came back into being thanks to the help of some true Internet detectives (I highly recommend joining the Duster Disc that was created a long time ago, especially if you have an interest in following how mysteries like these are uncovered) and now there's a noticeable collection of fans existing out there. The hipster in me would like to be offended at their "mainstreaming" but I think that would be rude and petty. We should want people to love the things we do. The music I thought I was the only person who was listening to now has a cornucopia of people bonding and enjoying these soundtracks of long walks under a grey sky, thick with rain. If you're feeling depressed and here to vent, take solace that if you stay in that tent instead of jumping Into The Waters, you'll get out of the melancholy you're feeling right now. Someone cares.

"Welp, the truth comes out. I've never been autistic, I work 40 hours a week to support my parents, this was all been a trick, You have been Trolled."

Beautiful

The best memories with my friends are going through my mind listening this. As if it was a melancholic ending of a movie…but I was never the main character. I feel such appreciation for being alive and have met all the people in my life… Not going to lie I feel lost and this song feels like the personification of what I am feeling.

Bro I just wanna be loved

I cant even cry. Im just numb.

It feels like you had the best time of your life but then you realize how much left of pain and suffering you have left of your life. Pain, Emotional pain all that great stuff. Have a good life people :]

Feels like waking up from a dream where you were happy and things were going good.

One of my favorite Duster songs.

When you just dont feel like living , this is for when you want to take a pause in work ,studies ,duties, life.

You know, there was a time when I had a crush on this one girl in my class. I told her how I felt and she said she didn't like but that was ok. It felt relieving, about a year later I changed. Now I don't even have feeling for any girl. I've lost that ability, I lost most of my emotions. I hardly feel, I hardly empathize with anyone.

I am so glad that UKposts reccomended this song to me, I can’t stop listening

If only the good ending in all of our lives were guaranteed, I wouldn’t be so sad.

“Woah dude, that looked like a pretty bad fall. What? What’s a Sonichu? Dude, you must’ve hit your head pretty hard. My name isn’t ‘Chris Chan’ it’s just Christian. Are you feeling okay? We should take you to the hospital, I’ll let my wife know that I’m taking you now.”

This song was so ahead of its time its amazing

So glad Chris got accepted to Rhode Island School of Design! I wish nothing but the best for him

this dong is gold

School is coming to the end. I dont want to leave my friends, Dont want to grow up. Want to stay young like this forever. But thats life, everything mist come to an end. I will remember the memories they gave me forever. Share it with my wife and child

"yu only live once!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" thank fucking god man i dont ever wanna live my life again

This music is when a guy helped you laugh while youre crying and now he is dead, you are sitting there. Just to be with him. Your missing him so much ,a tear comes out, and you realise that is your last goodbye. Even this gave me flashbacks. Like it makes me remember one of my pre-school friend. He was the only friend i had, im smiling outside and im crying in.

This is the song I always come back to every few years . Still so great , 3/1/2022 , 9:32 am, San Diego ,Ca