Mission: Control!

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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

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{{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.

  1. "Carnival" – 2:30
  2. "Wheaton Calling" – 3:12
  3. "Pacific 231" – 3:20
  4. "Scissoring" – 2:32
  5. "The Escape Engine" – 2:54
  6. "(my pornograph)" – 1:13
  7. "Meccano" – 2:51
  8. "3 Sisters" – 5:47
  9. "Flood of Foreign Capital" – 3:44
  10. "Crowned" – 2:43
  11. "Sweet Deals on Surgery" – 2:39
  12. "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)
  13. "Untitled" - 1:43 (2012 reissue)
  14. "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

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Category:Burning Airlines albums

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