Mission: Control!

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Mission: Control!
Studio album by
Released23 February 1999
Recorded1998
GenrePost-hardcore
Length42:50
LabelDeSoto (U.S.); Arctic Rodeo Recordings (Germany)
ProducerBurning Airlines, Peter Grey Mansinne, Chad Clark, Don Zientara
Burning Airlines chronology
Mission: Control!
(1999)
Identikit
(2001)
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Mission: Control! is the debut album by American rock band Burning Airlines. It was released in 1999.[1][2] 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."[3]

Track listing[edit]

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[edit]

  • J. Robbins – vocals, guitars, mini-moog, percussion, devices
  • Bill Barbot – bass guitar, vocals, keyboards, guitar, percussion
  • Peter Moffett – drums, vocals, percussion, guitar

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Burning Airlines: Mission: Control!". Pitchfork.
  2. ^ Thompson, Stephen. "Burning Airlines: Mission: Control!". Music.
  3. ^ "BURNING AIRLINES – "Mission: Control!" – LP+CD (arr043)". Arctic Rodeo Recordings. Retrieved 6 December 2020.