“Young Lust” by Pink Floyd

Parked in the middle of The Wall, Pink Floyd's 1979 album and their eleventh in the studio, "Young Lust" is where the band quits brooding and starts leering. David Gilmour wrote the music, one of only three songs he co-wrote for the record, and he takes the lead vocal, the electric guitar and the bass as well, while Roger Waters supplies the words and hollers along on the choruses.

It's a bluesy hard-rock grind in E minor, with Nick Mason pounding drums and tambourine and Richard Wright on organ and piano, and its story is a bored rocker on tour chasing a one-night stand to kill the monotony. Bob Ezrin produced it with Gilmour and Waters, James Guthrie co-producing. On the album a phone call bleeds over the final bars, and Chris Fitzmorris is credited with spoken vocals. Italy, South Africa and Rhodesia got a longer single edit.

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