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Nothing that Rick Rubin<\/a> touched was simply about getting the best take whenever he was behind the mixing desk.\u00a0<\/p>\n He wanted to work with every one of his artists on a more intimate level, and no amount of blood, sweat and tears was going to matter if the actual songs didn\u2019t work. While there needed to be some X-factor in the mix whenever he worked on a record, some of the best musical minds could get the job done with only their voice and a few microphones.<\/p>\n Then again, that\u2019s what it was all about for Rubin when he first started making music. Some of the biggest names to him at the time were punk rockers, and when listening to the greatest songs that Ramones ever put out, it was clear that they were working from the same format that he was when he was putting together his first beats at Def Jam Records. It was all about simplicity, and as long as there was someone speaking truth on it, that was all that mattered to him.<\/p>\n But \u201ctruth\u201d could be from multiple perspectives as well. Although punk and hip-hop may get the credit of being two of the purest genres imaginable, Rubin knew that there was power in someone bringing that same energy to rock and roll as well. It\u2019s what made him curious when working with Run-DMC and Aerosmith, and when he started to see what Tom Petty could do on his own, he realised that he had the power to appreciate an album like Full Moon Fever just as much as Slayer\u2019s Reign in Blood. <\/p>\n Out of all the collaborations that he\u2019s done, though, there\u2019s something about Johnny Cash that felt different. Rubin seemed to be a surrogate translator for Cash whenever he was showing \u2018The Man in Black\u2019 any new music, and judging by the way that Cash conducted himself around the musical guru, it\u2019s not like he wasn\u2019t afraid of trying some new things whenever he sang songs like Soundgarden\u2019s \u2018Rusty Cage\u2019 or Nine Inch Nails\u2019s \u2018Hurt\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n