Album: Everybody Does It
Year: 1986
Possessed by the same rock ‘n’ roll spirit as The Replacements — not really hardcore, but fueled by punk rock — all that Boston’s Dogmatics lacked was a singer and songwriter as world-beating as Paul Westerberg. (Which, to be fair, was the same for 99% of every other band ever.)
Their two records — 1984’s Thayer Street and 1986’s Everybody Does It — were full of song titles like “MTV-O.D.,” “Pussy Whipped” “Hardcore Rules,” and “Shithouse.” And the one song you might remember — “Teenage Lament” — had the chorus “Why must I be a teenager on drugs?”
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