Before the Blackout

Album infobox
Name = Before the Blackout
Type = Album
Artist = Allister


Background = Orange
Released = October 11 2005
Recorded = The Vault (Fullerton, California), World Class Audio (Anaheim, California)
Genre = Rock, pop punk
Length = 46:05
Label = Drive-Thru
Producer = Dennis Hill, Kyle Homme
Reviews =
*AbsolutePunk.net (76%) [http://absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=97146 link]
*Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:kjfixqtsldse]
Last album = "Last Stop Suburbia"
(2002)
This album = "Before the Blackout"
(2005)
Next album = "Guilty Pleasures" EP
(2006)

"Before the Blackout" is Allister's third and final full-length album, released on October 11 2005 on Drive-Thru Records.

Track listing

(all songs written by Allister, except where noted otherwise)
# "Waiting" – 3:23
# "D²" – 4:09
# "A Lotta Nerve" (Allister, Dennis Hill) – 2:42
# "From the Ground Up" (Allister, Rory Cleveland) – 2:14
# "Blackout" – 4:08
# "Rewind" – 2:59
# "2 A.M." – 3:32
# "You Lied" – 3:23
# "A Study in Economics" – 3:35
# "Suffocation" – 2:55
# "Easy Answers" (Allister, Hill, Kyle Homme) – 2:55
# "The Legend of Pegleg Sullivan" – 2:45
# "Potential Suicide" – 3:11
# "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" (Nihongo|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