What are 5 songs that YOU think I should hear before I die?

Aw, Jake, don't be dead, dude! The thought of this is way too Goth for me to handle.

1. My Bloody Valentine - Soon

2. Medicine - Time Baby 3

3. Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey

4. Type O Negative - Die with Me

5. The Misfits - Die, Die My Darling

Only 5?!

Venus In Furs - Velvet Underground

I Wanna Be Your Dog - The Stooges

Or, The Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd

Taste The Pain - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Peaches En Regalia - Frank Zappa

The End - The Doors (if you actually played this just before you died it would make for a dramatic exit)

Number One by Chaz Jankel

Prowler by Iron Maiden

I'm The Man by Anthrax

Song About An Angel by Sunny Day Real Estate

Obsession by Animation

T.N.T. by AC/DC

i'd suggest more but these songs are basically the best before the year 2000, enjoy it much =)

Hmmm ...

1. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare by Mr Bungle

2. Paranoid Andriod by Radiohead

3. Deep Blue Day by Brian Eno

4. Epitaph by King Crimson

5. Aenima by Tool

Megalomania by Black Sabbath

The Rain Song by Led Zeppelin

Burn by Deep Purple

Circle Of The Tyrants by Celtic Frost

Heavy Metal: Black And Silver by Blue Oyster Cult

That's Karl Karl's recommendations to Jake Jake!

Before 2000?

1. Waltz, No. 2 (XO) by Elliott Smith

2. Simple Man by Graham Nash (NOT the Lynyrd Skynyrd song)

3.Roadhouse Blues by The Doors

4. All My Love by Led Zeppelin

5. All Apologies by Nirvana (the live version)

Good question, star for you. :]

The Battle of Evermore--Led Zeppelin

We're Not Gonna Take It--The Who

The Prophet's Song--Queen

Old Brown Shoe--The Beatles

Lola--The Kinks

Waltz #2 - Elliott Smith

Rip In Heaven - 'Til Tuesday

Safe in the Arms of Love - Wild Choir

Hear the Wind - Gene Clark

Crescent City - Lucinda Williams

I went with the more obscure instead of Fleetwood Mac or Emmylou Harris cuz you probably already have heard them. Why waste my 5?? ;-)

I'm not sure if you'll like all of these but

"Omerta"- lamb of God

"The Outsider"- A Perfect Circle

"Spiral"- Nightrage

"Only Inhuman"- Sonic Syndicate

"... And Then the world Froze"- Octavia Sperati

crap just read before 2000... i need to reevaluate my list

"To Myself I Turned"- Lacuna Coil

"She's in Parties"- bauhaus

"Speed king"- Deep Purple

"With the Flaming Shades of Fall"- Dark Tranquillity

"Evenfall"- Tristania

Dance With the Devil - Immortal Technique

My Iron Lung - Radiohead

Make Me *** by Mindless Self Indulgence (or indeed any song by them - some of their stuff is from before 2000)

We're Going to be Friends by The White Stripes

Bounce by System of a DOwn

Let It Be-The Beatles

A Day In the Life-The Beatles

Ruby Tuesday-Rolling Stones

Venus-Shocking Blue

Yesterday-The Beatles