Mission: Control!
{{About|the Burning Airlines Album||Mission control (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox album
| name = Mission: Control!
| type = studio
| artist = Burning Airlines
| cover = Burning Airlines - Mission- Control! (Album Cover).jpg
| alt =
| released = 23 February 1999
| recorded = 1998
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Post-hardcore
| length = 42:50
| label = DeSoto (U.S.); Arctic Rodeo Recordings (Germany)
| producer = Burning Airlines, Peter Grey Mansinne, Chad Clark, Don Zientara
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = Identikit
| next_year = 2001
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web |title=Mission: Control! Review by Jonathan Cohen |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/mission-control%21-mw0000257029 |website=AllMusic |access-date=15 May 2024}}
}}
Mission: Control! is the debut album by American rock band Burning Airlines. It was released in 1999.{{Cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/1023-mission-control/|title=Burning Airlines: Mission: Control!|website=Pitchfork}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.avclub.com/burning-airlines-mission-control-1798196746|title=Burning Airlines: Mission: Control!|first=Stephen|last=Thompson|website=The A.V. Club}} The German label Arctic Rodeo Recordings reissued the album as a colored vinyl LP with enclosed CD in an edition of 700 copies (200 on yellow, 250 on blue, 250 on marbled orange/red) in 2012 with an extra song: "Back of Love".{{cite web |title=BURNING AIRLINES – "Mission: Control!" – LP+CD (arr043) |url=http://arcticrodeorecordings.com/wordpress/?page_id=844 |website=Arctic Rodeo Recordings |access-date=6 December 2020}}
Track listing
All songs written by Burning Airlines, lyrics by J. Robbins.
- "Carnival" – 2:30
- "Wheaton Calling" – 3:12
- "Pacific 231" – 3:20
- "Scissoring" – 2:32
- "The Escape Engine" – 2:54
- "(my pornograph)" – 1:13
- "Meccano" – 2:51
- "3 Sisters" – 5:47
- "Flood of Foreign Capital" – 3:44
- "Crowned" – 2:43
- "Sweet Deals on Surgery" – 2:39
- "I Sold Myself In" – 9:26 (original CD release; actual song 2:50, followed by 4:55 of silence and a 1:41 untitled bonus song); 3:02 (2012 reissue)
- "Untitled" - 1:43 (2012 reissue)
- "Back of Love" - 3:12 (2012 reissue)
Personnel
- J. Robbins – vocals, guitars, mini-moog, percussion, devices
- Bill Barbot – bass guitar, vocals, keyboards, guitar, percussion
- Peter Moffett – drums, vocals, percussion, guitar