Produced by Bruce Fairbairn. Recorded at Little Mountain Sound Studios, Vancouver Canada, April-June 1989.

Young Lust appeared as the B-side to the 7" vinyl Aerosmith single Love In An Elevator, released in the U.S. in August 1989.

Joe Perry: We had three weeks of pre-production in Vancouver before we actually recorded. I went to Jim Vallance's house with the idea to write the first song on the album, just tear it up into something that sounded like a dinosaur eating cars. Y'know, let them know we're here when that double kick drum gets going. We came up with "Young Lust" -- (from the book "Walk This Way - The Autobiography of Aerosmith" by Stephen Davis).

Jim Vallance: Steven didn't come to my studio for the first day of writing "Young Lust".  It was just Joe and me. Joe said, "Let's write the fastest, nastiest, most rockin' track ever". So I dialled up a double bass-drum feel on my sequencer -- kinda like Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher", but without the "shuffle" -- and we were off an running.

Steven Tyler: 'Young Lust' is just about that initial feeling you get when you fall in love. It's hard to get heady. Part of me says, Yeah, I'd like to take the Dylan approach and be profound. But that ain't it. Joe Perry throws me a lick, it's a language to me, and I sing about what I hear his lick saying. I jam, I scat and then fill in the blanks. 'Young Lust'? It crossed my mind too. What am I singin' about? But I still feel those feelings, maybe more than anybody else -- (from a September 1989 article in Sounds Magazine).

Before I could strap on my bass guitar, Joe started into a riff that just burned, and we were off and running.

We finished the arrangement that day and put it on a cassette tape for Steven to listen to. Steven came over the next afternoon and laid down a rough vocal.  After that the lyrics just seemed to spill out of him.

Steven is never at a loss for words. If anything, he usually writes more lyrics than needed. Part of my job was helping Steven choose which words to leave out ... which is a real dilemma because everything he writes is so good! 

Steven has notebooks full of unused lyrics ... enough for another hundred songs!