Ryan (drums): I picked a record that came out in maybe '93, when free jazz was getting its foothold in indie rock.
I remember telling them, 'Well, if you wanted a record that sounded like Dan Steely, then maybe you should have signed someone in their thirties, rather than me, a 19-year-old.' This was met with silence, in typical form.
I realised making this record that maybe I need to do the same thing because I did not take time to notice that it could come across as one-sided because I'm such a handful.
History may one day record that maybe the most honest speech about why we invaded Iraq was given by Prime Minister Tony Blair, addressing the filing cabinets in an empty hallway just outside his office at No. 10 Downing Street.
"If we look at very recent data for developed countries, we see that Italy has two records that are maybe world records," he said.
"These guys grew up hearing nothing and then suddenly they heard everything," says Michael Pettis, an American expat who combines his day job as a university professor with running D-22, Beijing's answer to the fabled New York club CBGB, and Maybe Mars, a record label that is home to the acclaimed Beijing bands Carsick Cars, Snapline and Joyside.
Let Stereo IQ save you the stress by picking out the best new tracks released this week -- perhaps you can one-up your buddy who works at a record store, or maybe impress that hipster babe with the thick-rimmed glasses you're always staring at.
That maybe explains the record collecting habits of Nick Hornby ("that embodiment of 90s man", said James Naughtie) and his fictional characters, explored in Bookclub (Radio 4).
Record-industry experts estimate that on critical buzz alone, a record can sell maybe 100,000 copies.
Death among black youth is leaving a track record that no one except maybe some reactionary whites in suburban St. Louis can possibly be proud of.
