The fourth track on the Goo Goo Dolls' debut album, “I’m Addicted” shows off the band’s origins as a punk band while also anticipating a focus on substance abuse and addiction that would appear in later, better known songs like “Black Balloon,” “Broadway,” and “Sympathy.”

Additionally, for all the talk (and criticism) the band faced early on as copycats of The Replacements, this song reveals a potential debt to a different Minnesota rock heavyweight: Husker Du. The catchy chorus bears a striking resemblance to “I Apologize” from Husker’s 1985 album, New Day Rising. This is not to say GGD ripped the melody from Husker Du. This kind of resemblance happens when members of one band listen to their influences. Case in point, Nirvana were quite concerned that “Come As You Are” sounded too much like Killing Joke’s “Eighties.” In any case, the resemblance suggests the early Goo Goo Dolls had a kick-ass record collection.

As Rzeznik himself said in an interview: “Soul Asylum and Husker Du. I was always into sort of that Midwestern alternative rock.”