Before the Blackout

Before the Blackout is Allister's third studio album.

Before the Blackout
Studio album by Allister
Released	October 11, 2005 (2005-10-11)
Studio	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)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AbsolutePunk	(76%) link
Allmusic

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.