Search - Bliss 66 :: Trip to the 13th

Dan C. from VERGENNES, VT
Reviewed on 5/21/2018...

Bliss 66 is Pearl Jam Advanced Whitening Formula. If you like Pearl Jam, and cannot get enough Pearl Jam, and wish there were more Pearl Jam, well . . . some of the best Pearl Jam not written and performed by Pearl Jam is here. It's not my cup of tea, okay. To me, it sounds like Journey-style stadium rock passed through a sepia Emo filter, but that's not what's important. If you like Pearl Jam, you will almost assuredly like Bliss 66. Influences include Pearl Jam and Pearl Jam.

Blissful debut

Matt Paproth | edwardsville, IL United States | 08/04/2001

(4 out of 5 stars)

"i'm waiting for this band to explode, and i'm wondering if it is going to happen in the following months. i really enjoyed this debut album from this excellent band. here's what to expect if you buy it:the album is very similar to lifehouse's No Name Face. so, if you liked that album (if you didn't, you should listen to it again - it's amazing), i recommend this one also. the cons: Trip to the 13th is nowhere as deep or as moving as the lifehouse album; none of the songs are over 4 minutes (which is really discouraging); glen ballard's production makes the good songs better and the bad songs blander; at least four of the tracks are practically indistinguishable. that said...the pros: Paramount, Sooner or Later, and Defense are three of the best songs i've heard this year. I believe SoL is the first single, and it is very radio-friendly. Paramount is potentially a huge track for radio. Crazy World, Live, Do It Again, and Not Quite Paradise are the norm for Bliss66, (if i were to download a song to see if i liked the band, it would be one of these.) Defense, the last song on the album, is brilliant. Like Everything ending Lifehouse's album, it takes the sound created in the previous 10 songs and slows it, distorts it, and produces a beautiful result. These 3 songs alone are worth the price of the album.i wrote a review for No Name Face several months before it went big, and it appears that i'm doing the same with this band. i wish them the same luck and think that any fan of M20, Lifehouse, etc. would be well served in picking up this album. buy it cheap while you still can."

Ripped off by popular bands

Jordan Bisasky | Reisterstown, Maryland United States | 12/27/2003

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Just some things I've noticed. The guitar melody in Sympathy on the Goo Goo Doll's 2002 album Gutterflower sounds exactly like the verse guitar melody in Letting Go from Bliss 66. And Take Me Away by Lifehouse on their 2002 CD Stanley Climbfall sounds extrememly similar to Ain't This the Feeling by Bliss 66. Except Take Me Away lacks the ultra catchy bridge/chorus with only mixing and vocals.Close coincidences. Ultimately, thanks should go to Glen Ballard who's an ingenious producer (Aerosmith, Van Halen, Allanis Morissette, Live, The Corrs, Aretha Franlin, and too many more).This CD often borders between catchy and generic. I think what keeps most of the songs in the former category is a lot of the great mixing and inclusion of keyboards and strings in some of the songs.It's unfortunate that they did not catch on in the mainstream since there are some really good songs in the album. Starting out with Paramont is perfect since it's a hard rocking song. Sooner or Later kind of transitions the album into more of the pop/rock genre. Ain't This the Feeling is a gripping power ballard/rock type song. And the final two songs are definitely the best on the album. Apparently Crazy World was written in reaction to Columbine. On Defense, Bliss 66 and Glen Ballard went all out since it's easily the best song on the album.You can definitely argue that the album was overproduced and intended for the mainstream, but I think all the post-production work is what makes this album so great. It has a very 'complete' feeling to it. Trip to the 13th comes recommended to all fans of the pop/rock genre."