Before the Blackout

Before the Blackout
Studio album by Allister
Released	October 11, 2005
Recorded	The Vault (Fullerton, California), World Class Audio (Anaheim, California)
Genre	Pop punk, punk rock, alternative rock
Length	46:05
Label	Drive-Thru
Producer	Dennis Hill, Kyle Homme
Allister chronology
Last Stop Suburbia (2002) Before the Blackout (2005) Guilty Pleasures (2006)

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Before the Blackout is Allister's third studio album.

Release

It was released on October 11, 2005 on Drive-Thru Records. From late January until early March 2007, the band supported Mest on their tour of the U.S.^[1] In March and April the band went on a tour of Japan, before breaking up.^[2]

Track listing

(all songs written by Allister, except where noted otherwise)

1. "Waiting" – 3:23
2. "D²" – 4:09
3. "A Lotta Nerve" (Allister, Dennis Hill) – 2:42
4. "From the Ground Up" (Allister, Rory Cleveland) – 2:14
5. "Blackout" – 4:08
6. "Rewind" – 2:59
7. "2 A.M." – 3:32
8. "You Lied" – 3:23
9. "A Study in Economics" – 3:35
10. "Suffocation" – 2:55
11. "Easy Answers" (Allister, Hill, Kyle Homme) – 2:55
12. "The Legend of Pegleg Sullivan" – 2:45
13. "Potential Suicide" – 3:11
14. "Alone" – 4:04

Bonus track

The Japanese version of the album, issued through In-n-Out Records, includes a bonus track. The track, sung in Japanese, is a cover version of a 1993 The Boom song.

15. "Shima Uta" (Kazufumi Miyazawa (宮沢和史 Miyazawa Kazufumi)) – 3:06

Personnel

• Kyle Lewis guitar
• Mike Leverence drums
• Scott Murphy vocals, bass
• Tim Rogner vocals, guitar

References

1. "Mest break up". Alternative Press. January 13, 2006. Retrieved June 26, 2016.
2. "Paramoreee". Alternative Press. March 6, 2007. Retrieved August 10, 2016.