Help me choose 12 albums...

[mjau]

I'm going away for a month to Sweden, where I'll be getting married to a nice Swedish girl named Anna. Afterwards, we are taking two weeks on our own to just drive around and camp in Norway and Sweden, so it affords me a lot of time to just listen to music in the beauty and solitude of northern Scandinavia. I'm trying to pack really lightly, which means that I'm only bringing a 12 disc cd holder.
So...just curious, but if it was you, which 12 albums would you bring with you for a month abroad? My tastes are pretty eclectic, and between my fiancee and I, we have probably a thousand or more cd's, so it's likely you may choose something I've already got and give me some good ideas.
As of now, the only ones I'm pretty sure I'll bring are...
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's

[DryCounty]

Anything by Creed -- dude! You know she'll love it!

[Rick Hunter]

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[digdug]

Saturday Night Hay Fever. All your disco favorites in an annoying bluegrass vein. Bee Gees and banjos forever!

[Rodgre]

an ipod and a charger that will work in sweeden.

I went away to do a record for five months and I *had* to bring some 200 CDs with me, just in case.

Then came the Ipod and I can carry an endless supply of my favorites with me everywhere!

Roger

[bobbydj]

1. Can - Ege Bamyasi
2. Portishead - Dummy
3. VU - 1969
4. Nick Drake - Pink Moon
5. Scott Walker - Scott 3
6. GbV - Vampire on Titus
7. Sparklehorse - Vivadixie
8. The Cardigans - Life
9. Interpol - TotBL
10. GSYBE - LYSFLAtH
11. Bowie - Low
12. T-Rex - Electric Warrior

[wing]

check out the swedish music scene... specifically Petter. He's hilarous.

And remember, Swedes hate norwegians. Just ask them. heh.

Lycka till!

[Rick Hunter]

1.Pinback- Blue Screen Life
2.Pulp- Common People
3.Magnetic Fields-69 love songs
4.Three Mile Pilot- Another desert Another sea.
5.Cardigans- Life (good choice Bob)
6.Fionna Apple-When the Pawn
7.sandre lerche- faces down
8.Elliott Smith- Roman Candle
9.Grandaddy- The one before software slump
10.Sigor Ros- ()
11.Weezer-Pinkerton
12.Velvet Underground-The Bananna one

[maz]

yeah. buy an iPod. There's no way 12 albums will cut it.

But if it's your honeymoon of sorts, I'd recommend Maxwell's Embrya. It's like a freakin' mating call.

[wing]

1.Pinback- Blue Screen Life

what a fine choice!

I will say a few of my own (though I don't have time for coming up with 12):

the shins - chutes too narrow
starlight mints - the deam that stuff was made of
spoon - kill the moonlight
ratatat - s/t
dinosaur jr - hand it over
pretty girls make graves - good health
john vanderslice - cellar door

i'll think of some more later maybe

have fun!

[wing]

OH yea... and hardly anything beats Zapp & Roger for making love!!!

[joeysimms]

I could do it with 6, but i liked some of the others picks..

1. Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
2. gamelan (Music from the morning of the World) on Nonesuch
3. Howlin Wolf - both of the chess folk blues things
4. Indian classical (12 graces played on the Vina) also Nonesuch
5. John Lee hooker - any
6. VU's 3rd

[tiger vomitt]

wow! someone else who is into that gamelan album

awesome

[jca83]

1. neutral milk hotel - in the aeroplane over the sea
2. sufjan stevens - greetings from michigan, the great lake state
3. jeff buckley - grace
4. nick drake - pink moon or bryter later
5. elliott smith - either/or, self-titled, roman candle, or xo
6. the rapture - echoes
7. modest mouse - the moon and antarctica
8. the shins - chutes too narrow
9. the decemberists - castaways and cutouts
10. interpol - turn on the bright lights
11. of montreal - the gay parade
12. the unicorns - who will cut our hair when we're gone?

there's more, i'm certain. these are just some records i find myself pulling out a lot, and would miss not having around.

i second the iPod choice -- you can even get your name engraved on it! or something in swedish about a moose.

[DryCounty]

Anything by Creed -- dude! You know she'll love it!

Okay okay okay, time to get serious...

In no particular order:

Velvet Underground 3rd Lp
Sparklehorse "Good Morning Spider"
Lee Hazlewood "Cowboy in Sweden"
Joy Division "Still"
Henry Mancini "Experiment in Terror" soundtrack
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds "Your Funeral, My Trial"
Scott Walker - Scott 4
The Smiths "Louder than Bombs"
Charlie Pride "In Person" (live)
Born Bad (compilation) volume 3
Pixies - Doolittle
Low - Long Division