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“Vitamin R (Leading Us Along)” by Chevelle

From the album This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In) (2004)

“Vitamin R (Leading Us Along)” by Chevelle appears on 29 radio countdowns from 19 stations between 2004 and 2014. It was first released in 2004 on the album This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In). Its best result is #4 on the Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2004. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #32 alternative song of 2004, #3,713 alternative song of all time and #255 of the '00s.

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#4best position
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"Vitamin R (Leading Us Along)" kicked off Chevelle's third album, This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In), as its lead single in August 2004. The title is slang for Ritalin, and the song is about a friend of Sam, Joe and Pete Loeffler who was wrongly diagnosed with ADHD and ended up hooked on the drug. Pete Loeffler wrote the words, with Joe and Sam sharing the writing credit.

The sound is alternative metal with a brooding, coiled tension: riffs that circle and tighten while Pete's voice slides from a murmur to a roar. It gave them their second number one on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart and reached number three on Modern Rock. The video turns the clutter of an office cubicle into life-size landscapes that Pete drifts through, and Loudwire later ranked it the second-best Chevelle song ever.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Hard Rock & Metal

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2004 44 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2004 107
2004 58 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2004 106
2004 4 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2004 101
2004 46 WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2004 100
2004 38 K-Rock New York, NY K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2004 93
2004 38 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON 89X Top 89 Songs of 2004 89
2004 46 CD101 Columbus, OH CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2004 101
2004 26 Y100 Philadelphia, PA Y100 Top 100 Songs of 2004 99
2004 41 CFNY 102.1 The Edge Toronto, ON CFNY Top 102 Songs of 2004 102
2004 25 CHOI Radio X Quebec City, QC CHOI Top 98 Songs of 2004 98
2004 18 The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2004 99
2004 20 WCCC The Rock Hartford, CT WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2004 106
2004 56 99X Atlanta, GA 99X Essential 99 of 2004 99
2004 133 (tie) WBER Rochester, NY WBER Listener Countdown 2004 227
2004 67 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2004 88
2004 95 WHTG Monmouth-Ocean, NJ G106.3 Top 106 Songs of 2004 106
2004 35 X96 Salt Lake City, UT X96 Top 50 Songs of 2004 50
2004 36 Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2004 100
2005 80 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2005 107
2005 61 CHOI Radio X Quebec City, QC CHOI Top 98 Songs of 2005 98
2005 36 Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2005 100

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2007 1328 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 1576 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 1590 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 180 94.1 The Zone 94.1 The Zone 210 Most Played Songs of the Decade 210
2010 1627 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 1691 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 1765 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2014 1827 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013

Also listed as: Vitamin R.

Charting alongside it in 2004

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  2. 2American IdiotGreen Day
  3. 3Float OnModest Mouse
  4. 4Take Me OutFranz Ferdinand
  5. 5VertigoU2
  6. 6MegalomaniacIncubus

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