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You’ve Got What I Want

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"When I heard the latest Dogmatics single, "You've got what I Want" was inspired by The Outlets..I was all ears. It is indeed a ripper of a song and harkens back to that great Boston scene !! Looking forward to what will surely be a fantastic full length upcoming by The Dogmatics on Rum Bar Records!!" - Skybar Rising

"Hold the presses, kids, as this is a track that has to be fast-tracked. And what a backstory. The new song, "You've Got What I Want", is the opening blast from a new full-length coming out on July 18. But it's 96 seconds of fury that dates back to the band's earliest rehearsals." - The Ledge

The Dogmatics channel a new creative outlet with ‘You’ve Got What I Want’

Legendary Boston garage rock band unleash a punchy new single with a rich backstory out Friday, June 20 via Rum Bar Records:
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Ahead of a new album (first in nearly 40 years!) and massive record release party in July, The Dogmatics unleash new single 'You've Got What I Want'. The track was first written by a then-20-year-old Jerry Lehane back in 1981, after he saw The Outlets at The Channel.

There’s an old adage in rock and roll about how The Velvet Underground never sold a lot of records, but those who did buy one went on to form a band. Perhaps the Boston music scene equivalent is about The Outlets, and how everyone who went to their shows around the city in the early-’80s went home and wrote a song trying to sound like them.

The Dogmatics’ Jerry Lehane was one of those people, catching the band at The Channel as a 20-year-old way back in 1981 and quickly returning to his band’s infamous Thayer Street loft to write “You’ve Got What I Want.” Nearly 45 years later, the punchy garage rock track finally sees the light of day as it gets the proper recorded treatment and hits the streams on Friday, June 20 on the legendary band’s home of Rum Bar Records.

“I loved The Outlets’ punk energy, and pop aspect, as well, so I was trying to write a song that sounded similar to their sound,” Lehane says. “Regarding the lyrics, I thought it would be cool to have people guess what it was about, ‘was it about sex’ or ‘was it about drugs’? It is clearly about drugs after listening to the Velvet Underground’s ‘Waiting For My Man’.” It turns out the Velvets had some impact too! Brimming with classic Dogmatics punkabilly and surf n’ skate energy at an economical 95 seconds in length, “You’ve Got What I Want” is the final single before the band unleashes its first new full-length album in nearly four decades, arriving on Friday, July 18.

A raucous record release party at Waltham’s French American Victory Club follows the next weekend on Saturday, July 26, and the lineup is pretty much its own one-off music festival: thedogmatics.com/shows/

lyrics

You’ve got what I want
You’ve got what I need
You’ve got what I want
Give it to me

I see you in the day
I see you in the night
I see you all the time
All right

I look out my window
I sit and I wait
I see you coming
It’s never too late

You’ve got what I want
You’ve got what I need
You’ve got what I want
Give it to me

I see you in the day
I see you in the night
I see you all the time
All right

I look out my window
I sit and I wait
I see you coming
It’s never too late

You’ve got what I want
You’ve got what I need
You’ve got what I want
Give it to me

I see you in the day
I see you in the night
I see you all the time
All right
All right

credits

released June 20, 2025
“You’ve Got What I Want”
Lyrics and music by Jerry Lehane
Lead vocals, Lead guitar – Jerry Lehane
Rhythm guitar – Peter O’Halloran
Bass – Jimmy O’Halloran
Drums – Tom Long
Backing vocals – James Young

Logo by Barry Hall
Design by James Young

Recorded at Edsbarn in Canton
Produced and engineered by Ed Riemer
Mastered by Dave Westner
© The Dogmatics 2025 thedogmatics.com

Released on Rum Bar Records

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​​The Dogmatics are a legendary Boston Garage Rock band established in the 1980s, still playing live and recording new songs on Rum Bar Records.

The award-winning music documentary "The Dogmatics: A Dogumentary (They were Boston’s house band)" by director Rudy Childs is now available for streaming on YouTube, Roku, and Tubi. ... more

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