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 EP
(2006)
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Before the Blackout is Allister's third full-length album, released on October 11, 2005 on Drive-Thru Records.

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.

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

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