Hey every one, as the title suggests I'm just wanting to know what the most essential X-Men stories are (to continuity and just cause they're good) pre Grant Morrisons 'New X-Men' I'm thinking in this order;

The Dark Phoenix Saga
Days of Future Past
God Loves, Man Kills
Mutant Massacre
Fall of the Mutants
Inferno
Days of Future Present
X-Tinction Agenda
Muir Island Saga
X-Cutioner Song
Fatal Attractions
Phalanx Covenant
Age of Apocalypse
Legion Quest
Onslaught
Children of the Atom
Operation: Zero Tolerance
The Twelve
Dream's End
Eve of Destruction