The phrase "a straight record" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an unaltered or honest account of events or information.
Example: "The journalist provided a straight record of the events that transpired during the protest."
Alternatives: "an accurate account" or "a truthful report".
Yet this memoir is more than a straight record of achievement.
He wrote in order to tell a true story and set a straight record, and he wrote for himself, to fathom where things had gone so wrong.
It might not have been the new weird America's Nevermind (the Nirvana album that sent grunge into the mainstream) but it broke the Billboard top 20, topped many an album-of-the-year list and made Animal Collective the most name-dropped beatniks nouveaux in many a straight record collection – a totem band, like a Radiohead bigger on hallucinogenics, chanting and camping out.
In the early 19th century, Mérimée put out an entire book called Songs of the Western Slavs, which the whole world (including Pushkin, who translated it) took to be a straight recording of various folk tales.
You can't get a straighter record than that".
U.S. factories cranked up output at a cracking pace in May and construction spending surged to a third straight record high in April, according to reports Tuesday that showed the economy gathering speed.
But the total number of people receiving jobless benefits climbed to 6.35 million, a 14th straight record week.
Chinese stocks rallied to a fourth straight record.
US science agencies confirmed Wednesday that 2015 not only set a second straight record for global average temperatures, it brought the Earth halfway to the point at which scientists warn climate change could become catastrophic.
Taiwan's jobless rate climbed to an 11th straight record in November as companies shed workers and moved production to China to cut costs amid falling sales.
Pournouri alleges that Leona Lewis's Collide "is a straight re-recording" of the earlier version of the song of the same name with the instrumental from Avicii.
