Okay, I realise Keane aren't exactly to everyone's taste, but I wanted to try a little experiment, and Under the Iron Sea is a very distinctive-sounding album.
Basically, I condensed the entire thing to ten minutes. If a song previously made up 20% of the album, the segment taken from it makes up 20% of the new track, and if the song started 40% of the way into the album, the segment is 40% of the way into the song it's taken from. So you have the start of the first song, the middle of the middle song, the end of the last song etc.
Look, I made a spreadsheet. It's got conditional formatting and everything.
Just give it a listen. The point of this exercise was that if I could make this a YouTube
thing, it would help people spread music around. If you wanted to recommend an album to somebody, you could show them the Condensed Version, and they'd get a feel for what the entire thing is like. They only take twenty minutes to make*, so if you like the idea and this is something you'd like to see more of, let me know. If you've got a request, also let me know.
On an entirely unrelated note, Damon Albarn said in a Guardian interview that there probably won't be any more Gorillaz music. Gorillaz was an experiment, and Mr. Albarn and Mr. Hewlett both feel it's run its course.
*Now that I've got the spreadsheet working, which itself took fucking ages.