Right. What's This, Then? - "This Corrosion"

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Buck up little cowboy. Just because this is over, there’s plenty more to come. For tonight’s finale, we venture into the land of goth rock. Even though the band’s leader insists they have never been a goth band. We’re walking into the room that has the goth classic in it. “This Corrosion” is a single (and the focal point) from The Sisters of Mercy’s boffo 1987 album, Floodland. It’s got a great dance beat, and features a 40-person vocal choir (members of the New York Choral Society.) It is, hands down, a bona fide epic goth classic tune. It’s also a not-so-subtle dig at former Sisters bandmates Wayne Hussey and Craig Adams, who had left the group to form The Mission, and Hussey in particular. The lyrics are jam-packed with cliche after cliche, a dig at Hussey’s early writing style, which was known to be using phrases from a phrase book he carried around (he got better with time.) Band drama. Did I mention that you can dance to it? Link is to the studio album version: