| MURDER INCORPORATED - V1a | 4:03 | MI / GS / MILM / LM-19 / TDB / UH |
| MURDER INCORPORATED - V1b | 4:27 | RTT |
| MURDER INCORPORATED - V1c | 4:22 | RTT / THLBP / THLBB |
| MURDER INCORPORATED - V1d | 4:13 | private cdr |
| MURDER INCORPORATED - V1e | 3:59 | MI / GS / MILM / UH |
| MURDER INCORPORATED - V1f | 3:52 | GREATEST / ESSENTIAL: 2015 / 1995 single |
Note: Recorded at Power Station by Toby Scott on May 3–4, 1982 and considered for an early album track listing as the second song, to follow "Born In The U.S.A". According to Brian Hiatt in The Stories Behind The Songs, "Murder Incorporated" was rehearsed in Roy Bittan's living room, and a tape of that rehearsal is highly admired by Max Weinberg: "the best version I've ever heard," he told Hiatt. All of the above are different mixes of the same core recording. V1a has been in circulation for many years, and is the most commonly bootlegged version. V1b is the full recording, with hard stop ending. When compensated for speed and empty space, the recording found on track 3 of the LP 'This Hard Land' (Boss Productions) is V1c, found at correct pitch on 'Roll the Tracks', with no backing vocals in the first verse. V1d deletes the saxophone solo after the second verse, and V1e is an alternate mix, featuring Roy Bittan on piano. The officially released V1f was remixed by Bob Clearmountain in 1994 for the Greatest Hits album. It includes the saxophone solo, but fades out earlier than the outtakes, explaining the ten second difference in track length. Inclusion on a six-CD sampler dated from June 1998 indicates that the song was considered for Tracks. This is peculiar, since the original 1982 recording had already been issued at this point, and no further recordings are known.