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Young Lust | ||||||||||||
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| Recording Artist: | Aerosmith | ||||||||||||
| Writers: | Steven
Tyler Joe Perry Jim Vallance |
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| Date Written: | 1989 / Vancouver Canada | ||||||||||||
| Albums: | Pump (Geffen, 1989) Young Lust (Geffen, 2001) Gold: Aerosmith (January 11, 2005) |
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| Steven Tyler: vocal Joe Perry: guitar Brad Whitford: guitar Tom Hamilton: bass Joey Kramer: drums |
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Produced by Bruce Fairbairn. Recorded at Little Mountain Sound Studios, Vancouver Canada, April-June 1989. |
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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). 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). 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". |
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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! |
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| Lyrics: | Young lust Happy just to be in lust Never have to eat no dust Everybody talk about Young lust You're dyin' and you're screamin' inside Oh, you're guilty way before you been tried It's crazy but you diggin' it Young lust You feel it in the summertime blues So easy when there's nothin' to lose And baby you be missin' out Young lust Sometimes you need it so bad It's enough to drive a young girl mad So what you gonna do about it, yeah yeah Little bit of nasty You look a little sleazy But don't get any on ya Young lust You better keep your daughter inside Or she gonna get a dose of my pride Yeah, everybody talks about it Young lust Once you had it you can never go back Don't you ever let 'em give you no slack Well, you're streaking down the alleyway, yeah yeah yeah We're checking out the ladies Who didn't bring their boyfriends Who love to get in trouble I've got to say I'll see you later, meet me in the elevator Always gettin' stronger Never gettin' weaker My love is gettin' longer I'll keep it in my sneaker Never keep a secret Never feelin' guilty Never gettin' lonely Never gettin' no peace, hidin' from the police Sneakin' out the backway Sneakin' down the alleyway Gotta do it my way yeah yeah yeah yeah Do it in the sunshine Hangin' from the clothesline Find another tree to climb Young lust There's no time for lovin' Young lust Ah, don't need one in the oven Young lust I'm a-pushin' and a-shovin' it, yeah Young lust Come on now I just can't wait Are you fishin' or you gonna cut bait Everybody body doin' it, yeah yeah Young lust Honey, now ain't it a bitch Sometime you gotta scratch that itch So what you gonna do about it - ya, ya, ya, ya, ya |
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