Epinions Recent Reviews for Divine_Cheese

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Harry Potter and the Convoluted Plotline of Destiny

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:12:13 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Divine_Cheese - I make no bones about the fact that, when it comes to Harry Potter, I’m a bit of a fan boy. Well not that much of a fan boy - I’ve never written a story for HP_Rimming (Which I’m assured is a real Internet group, although Harry/Draco is one...

The Horror (Seminal Albums - 2)

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:56:08 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Divine_Cheese - Music - noun: “An art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.” Today I walked into my local record store and was amused to see on a stand...

Hell's Bells! (Seminal Albums - 1)

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:44:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Divine_Cheese - The music of today really is rather pallid when compared with the sort of stuff that was coming out twenty years ago. Kids today are presented with an endless slew of loud rock bands whose idea of shocking is to play louder and sing bad words. However,...

Let's Go See Raoul (Future of Rock? - 1)

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 17:30:03 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Divine_Cheese - Welsh music is in dire need of resurgence. About eight years ago one couldn’t move on the streets of Blighty without a Valley’s lilt booming out of the nearest shop doorway. Bands like Super Furry Animals and Manic Street Preachers are now elder...

Hobson's Choice

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:14:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Divine_Cheese - Picture this; endless miles of barren, dusty red desert with a few straggling, groping trees desperately clinging to life. Endless expanses of crystal clear blue skies and merciless heat over soil barely fertile enough to grow crops in and everywhere...

50 Odd Foot Of Grrl

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 14:43:22 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Divine_Cheese - Despite the fact she’s a local hero (She currently resides in Sandbanks, Poole, near my home town) it took me a long time to discover PJ Harvey, who I now consider to be one of the finest female recording artists of recent years. I first heard of her...

You Can See The Blood Drain Away...

Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:16:09 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Divine_Cheese - It’s always so sad when the band you’ve idolised for so many years suddenly starts to become old isn’t it? It’s almost embarrassing to see the posters advertising the Rolling Stones, “Absolutely the last ever positively final Rolling Stones Lick the...

An Epilogue To History

Thu, 8 Dec 2005 20:44:35 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Divine_Cheese - It says a lot about a band when they’re collection of b-sides is marginally better than their collection of singles, but in many ways the Manics had bought it on themselves by making some poor choices for their best of Forever Delayed. To make...

Guess Who's Back

Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:11:16 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Divine_Cheese - Yeah that’s right - you read that correctly! It’s the return of the Cheese who is Divine. It’s been a long time since my last deconstruction of works of popular indie rock music but I am sporadically back (Sporadic due to the fact I have this...

The 100 Greatest Albums: 1

Sat, 13 Sep 2003 16:32:11 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Divine_Cheese - 1} The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers (Epic 1994) So finally, after six months of reviews we finally reach the conclusion - what I consider to be the greatest album of all time. Many of you may have guessed this is what it'd be - I'm surpri...

The 100 Greatest Albums: 2

Fri, 12 Sep 2003 17:15:08 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Divine_Cheese - 2} Parklife - Blur (Food 1994) I don't think there will ever be another album that will make me come over so misty-eyed with nostalgia as Parklife. There will probably never be another album that will bring back such carefree memories for...

The 100 Greatest Albums: 3

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:16:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Divine_Cheese - 3} The Bends - Radiohead (Parlaphone 1995) Over the past few years no band has managed to capture the world's attention in quite the same way as Radiohead. They're most often compared to rock luminaries such as The Beatles and Pink Floyd, and mo...

The 100 Greatest Albums: 4

Tue, 9 Sep 2003 17:09:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Divine_Cheese - 4} The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths (WEA 1986) Of all the 80s rock and indie stars, none is more iconic than a certain bequiffed fop from rainy Manchester who went by the name Stephen Patrick Morrissey, or as he was usually known, just plain Morri...

The 100 Greatest Albums: 5

Mon, 8 Sep 2003 14:58:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Divine_Cheese - 5} Document #5 - REM (IRS 1987) REM are a band who are as old as the hills - they seem to have been going since time immemorial. Since their post-punk origins at the very beginning of the 80s, the band have gone through several incarnations, but...

The Best Air Guitar Album 2002!

Wed, 15 Jan 2003 16:05:47 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Divine_Cheese - Do you like rock? That's not good enough!

Do you like ROCK!!!? Do you like men with long, badly conditioned hair grunting into a microphone about being "A motherf*cker from hell"? Do you like bands who all change their surname to the...

Contrary To Popular British belief, Punk Is American...

Fri, 8 Nov 2002 16:22:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Divine_Cheese - Music is, as any real music fan will tell you, in its element when played live, and to be truly magnificent every musical genre needs to have a spiritual home. This applies even to the snottiness of punk music, a form of expression which revelled in...

Bono's Brave New World

Thu, 19 Sep 2002 17:02:19 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Divine_Cheese - There are two types of people in our strange, messed up excuse for a world - those who love U2 and those who are yet to admit that they love U2.

Of those that love U2, there are also two types - the type who accept that Pop is an...

Those silly things you do when you're young...

Wed, 8 May 2002 14:30:22 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Divine_Cheese - Of all the bands that went together under the label Britpop*, there was one which the British public is at great pains to forget. A band so bad that Gene looked down their noses at them. A band so crass that their lead singer proclaimed "I want to go on...

Suckers and F*ckers and Stupid Retards

Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:54:35 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Divine_Cheese - Did you like the South Park movie?

Do you know what a "Donkey raping sh*t eater" is?

Do you like songs about sex, drugs and poo?

Then I have just the band for you! A real remedy to the rest of the whole uptight,...

"I Just Want To Make Some Ears Bleed!"

Sat, 30 Mar 2002 19:11:04 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Divine_Cheese - The thing about Psychocandy is that, much like the Matrix, to truly understand what it's actually like, you really have to hear it for yourself. Maybe it's a little irresponsible of me to recommend this album to any member of the public though,...

Pottermania reaches Divine_Cheese

Sat, 23 Mar 2002 18:41:11 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Divine_Cheese - Report of HM Schools Inspector for Hogwart's School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

School Type: State Grammar school, pupils selected on basis of academic endeavour and ability to turn relatives into household furniture.
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THE TRUTH - Everything you ever needed to know about Blur. And Badgers.

Fri, 15 Feb 2002 18:02:00 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Divine_Cheese - It was one wild and windy day in the middle of February that I came across Stavros again. Normally our quotient of kebab vans is limited to two - the Van of Life and the Van of Death - but every once in a while, when the cold winds blow from the north...

Divine_Cheese Is Dead!

Sun, 30 Dec 2001 19:07:44 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Divine_Cheese - Regrettably it is our duty to report that the internet personality known as the Divine_Cheese is presumed dead. Unfortunately the virtual body was never recovered - the pack of rabid Oasis fans who went for him with their copies of "Definitely...

What Oasis Could Have Sounded Like, If They Were Good

Wed, 26 Dec 2001 18:30:30 GMT
rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Divine_Cheese - "All right, it's me, Noel Gallagher and our kid, fookin' Liam, to review Tellin' Stories by the Charlatans - a more entertaining prospect than listening to Oasis... hang on, who wrote this fookin' nonce-breathed Southern rubbish?"

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The Lads Done Well Gary!

Sat, 15 Dec 2001 18:25:00 GMT
rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Divine_Cheese - Transcript of pilot episode of "Choons of the Day," a music programme featuring presenters from Match Of The Day talking about new releases and generally getting confused...

Gary Linneker: Good evening and welcome to Choon of the Day,...