Firstly, it is a rough, rocky record that bares its teeth defiantly - the album's title-track opener, full of stoner-style riffs and clumpy rhythms, plays like a statement of intent.
At writer's request, Elton put on a rough recording of "Aida," the musical he has written with Tim Rice.
Bands today try to replicate that recording in the belief that its rough sound can be emulated with a rough recording – one bad mic, and all in one room.
If you were looking to find fault, you might note that an artist who devotes four minutes of a 34-minute-long album to a rough recording of a loose rehearsal jam is not someone much abashed by accusations of self-indulgence.
Or at least it could have been, had Remi felt emboldened to just present the original rough recording, instead of trying to turn it into a polished finished product: a process which, as anyone who's heard the Beatles' Free As a Bird will tell you, never quite works.
The feeling that real love is something out of the protagonist's reach is a theme Morrissey would pick up and run with on songs such as How Soon Is Now?, so it's no surprise that the Smiths covered the band's equally brilliant I Want a Boy for My Birthday during one of their first rehearsals (although only a teasing 30 seconds of that rough recording exists on the web).
Hulu — Apparently, the "Voice of Hulu" had a rough recording day recently and somehow his outtakes snuck into some of the ad reels.
When Hynde appeared in the small venue at the back of the Rough Trade record store, in Williamsburg, in early June, fewer than a hundred people were assembled.
Geoff Travis at the Rough Trade record label secured his release from the huge debts and tiny royalties saddled on him by Richard Branson at Virgin, and, for the first time, he felt a degree of emancipation from a music industry that he felt had exploited him from the beginning.
