All on Black

"All on Black"
Single by Alkaline Trio
from the album Good Mourning
Released December 2, 2003
Format CD
Recorded 2002–2003 at Cello Studios
Genre Punk rock
Length 12:15
Label Vagrant
Writer(s) Matt Skiba, Dan Andriano, Derek Grant
Producer Joe McGrath, Jerry Finn
Alkaline Trio singles chronology
"We've Had Enough"
(2003)
"All on Black"
(2003)
"Time to Waste"
(2005)

"All on Black" is a song by the Chicago-based punk rock band Alkaline Trio, released as the second single from their 2003 album Good Mourning. The single was released only in the United Kingdom, with acoustic versions of "All on Black" and "We've Had Enough" recorded live for the Student Broadcast Network as B-sides, and reached #60 on the UK Singles Chart.[1]

A music video for the song was planned, which was to feature Marilyn Manson as the devil in a purgatory-themed casino gambling against singer/guitarist Matt Skiba.[2] However, the video was never filmed as Manson pulled out of the project.[2] Commenting on the concept, Skiba remarked:

It sounds a bit cheesy, but the script was great and the set was going to be awesome, totally like Dario Argento-esque, just really creepy. We were going to have angels and all kinds of weird shit, really carnival like and trippy [...] we had the place rented and everything and just needed Manson, but he bailed and we kind of asked ourselves whom else could we get for the role and we kind of decided who could replace Manson. We were just so disappointed we were just like fuck it.[2]

Contents

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Matt Skiba, Dan Andriano, and Derek Grant

No. Title Length
1. "All on Black"   4:00
2. "This Could Be Love" (live acoustic SBN session) 4:03
3. "All on Black" (live acoustic SBN session) 4:12
Total length:
12:15

Personnel

Band

Additional musicians

Production

Artwork

References