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“Reboot the Mission” by The Wallflowers
From the album Glad All Over (2012)
“Reboot the Mission” by The Wallflowers appears on 9 radio countdowns from 7 stations between 2012 and 2026. It was first released in 2012 on the album Glad All Over. Its best result is #13 on the KFOG Foghead Favorites 2012. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #13 indie & aaa song of 2012, #6,160 indie & aaa song of all time and #233 of the '10s.
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"Reboot the Mission" was the opening shot of the Wallflowers' return: the first single from Glad All Over, their sixth studio album, which came out on Columbia in 2012, and the band gave it away free ahead of the record. The title doubles as a statement of intent for a group getting back together, and the songwriting is split five ways, between Jakob Dylan, Jack Irons, Rami Jaffee, Stuart Mathis and Greg Richling, with Mick Jones sitting in on extra guitar and backing vocals.
The reunion was rockier than that title lets on. Nine years later, Dylan admitted the album had been a contentious one to make, with the band not really clicking after its time apart, and said you can hear the strain on the record.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 13 | KFOG San Francisco Bay Area, CA | KFOG Foghead Favorites 2012 | 40 |
| 2012 | 22 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 100.1 Songs of 2012 | 101 |
| 2012 | 29 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2012 | 89 |
| 2012 | 34 | 92.3 WTTS Indianapolis-Bloomington, IN | WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2012 | 50 |
| 2012 | 35 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2012 | 107 |
| 2012 | 40 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 200 Songs of 2012 | 200 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 483 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
| 2018 | 718 | WTMD | WTMD Listeners' Top 897 Songs, 2003-2018 | 896 |
| 2026 | 599 | KXT | KXT 917 Song Countdown | 917 |
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