There's a ton of different edits of This Corrosion:
7" Version - 4:24
Cassette Side A Version - 3:59
Cassette Side B Version - 5:16
12" Version - 8:37
Album Version - 10:55
CD Single / Slight Case of Overbombing - 11:21
(There's more, but these are the main ones.)
Andrew Eldritch explained it like this: "Originally I only wanted the long version, for me the song had to be this way. But the record company vetoed that, so I spent a weekend at the mixing desk. I liked the three minute edit the best, then I thought I'd do another one at mid-length. The LP mix is the same as the 12 inch version, it just fades out a bit earlier. The cassette version is different again cos Jim insisted on doing an edit of his own. He's more into little bits and pieces."
The 5:16 edit is supposedly is the Steinman edit, I have it and will try to upload it somewhere soonish.
> There was another discussion of This Corrosion somewhere
> on the board; I can't find it now. It was about the three
> different mixes of the song that were released on the LP,
> CD and cassette, all slightly different. Jim's mix was on
> the cassette, which of course I never had. Does anyone
> know if that version was ever released elsewhere--
> compilation, b-side, something? I cannot even find it on
> YouTube. Thanks.
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