new book quotes English writer Tanya Headon!

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From Vinyl Junkies: Adventures in Record Collecting by Boston writer Brett Milano, page 132:

"English writer Tanya Headon, in the fanzine Freaky Trigger, summed up why collectors scare their dates away: 'Even the most intimate moments have to have the perfect soundtrack, and there's no greater passion-killer than watching your beloved crouching over a multi-CD changer.' Nick Hornby's High Fidelity did its part to reinforce the theory, suggesting that no woman would bother debating what Elvis Costello's best album is, or bother with a man who did. (A notion that's not entirely true: I can vouch that I once asked a woman out specifically because the knew that the answer, of course, was Get Happy!!)

somehow I get the feeling Tanya would feel revulsed at being mentioned in the same graf as Hornby, but hey. (also, the best Costello album is actually Trust.)

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 03:01 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry, the quote from the book ends at the end of "Get Happy"

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 03:01 (twenty-two years ago)

in fact she mentionned Hornby in that piece

― Bruno- (Bruno-), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 03:25 (twenty-two years ago)

ah. still.

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 03:27 (twenty-two years ago)

the fact remains it's one of the most hilarious piece ever published by FT
(btw, is that book any good ?)

― Bruno- (Bruno-), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 03:55 (twenty-two years ago)

My! I feel Tanya will appreciate that!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 04:01 (twenty-two years ago)

the book is OK--quick read, for sure. not many ideas, though.

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 04:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Trust, feh. Too cluttered.

― Keith Harris (kharris1128), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 04:33 (twenty-two years ago)

that's about his least cluttered album!

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 06:24 (twenty-two years ago)

It is obviously vitally important that this thread become an all-male discussion of Elvis Costello's best album.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 09:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Tanya has changed a lot since that piece was written.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

CD changers - how quaint!

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 10:12 (twenty-two years ago)

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