Robbed hit of the week 5/6/24 - Chevelle's "Send The Pain Below"...

 

 

"Send The Pain Below" - Chevelle

from the album Wonder What's Next (2002)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #65

 

This week's "robbed hit" comes from the hard rock band Chevelle, whose breakthrough radio hit "The Red" made the rock radio top ten but stopped short of the halfway mark on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 at the start of 2003.  The next release from their second album and first on major-label Epic, Wonder What's Next, was "Send The Pain Below". Written by the band's brothers/members Joe, Pete, and Sam Loeffler, the lyrics vaguely tackle the manly habit of bottling one's feelings. Comparing it to suffocating and getting squished, the angst-filled track is more a release than a solution. Like basically an outlet for frat boys to get their yelling out. The production is equally loud and aggressive, though the call and response vocals from Matt provide a nice texture. With a music video revolving around snowboarding in Lake Tahoe and roaming Reno, the band found themselves with another hit...

"Send The Pain Below" scored Chevelle's first of so-far six #1 hits on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart, staying their for a full month, as well as topping the Alternative Rock counterpart for a week. But without pop radio onboard, and no singles sales points, the song stalled in the lower half of the Hot 100 in August of 2003.

A third release from the set, "Closure", was a moderate hit on the Mainstream (#11) and Alternative (#17) rock charts, while "bubbling under" the Hot 100 at #120. 

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Here's the band performing on Jimmy Kimmel Live in 2003...