“Youth” originally appeared on Beat Happening’s second cassette release Three Tea Breakfast, which was recorded in an abandoned apartment building in the Nakameguro neighborhood in Tokyo where the band stayed during a two-month sojourn in 1984. In an interview for Love Rock Revolution, Bret Lunsford remembers that “We brought Calvin’s little Fender Amp, just a tiny one, and one or two guitars; probably an acoustic and then the Silvertone. And we bought a match pair of recording devices that could serve as guitar amps, or vocal amps. They were double decks, so we could record on them and that’s how we recorded Three Tea Breakfast over there. They were basically boomboxes with inputs and double decks.”