Essential Charts

All charts provided here are to be used as an entry-point into a genre, allowing you to gain a basic understanding of what a genre could have to offer. It is recommended that you explore genres on your own after having listened through some of the recommended music. Help with exploring music can be found at the Discovering Music page. Do not treat the /mu/ essential chart as a "required listening for /mu/ chart." It doesn't matter if you have or haven't listened to the albums on the chart at all. The only reason it has been added to this wiki is for archival purposes and ease of access for everyone. If you come to /mu/ and listen to a lot of albums that happen to be on the /mu/ essentials chart, everyone will call you a "/mu/drone" and hate you, because a lot of people on /mu/ seem to think that the /mu/ essentials is a list of albums that only /mu/ likes, and is not a list of some of the most critically acclaimed albums of all time that a lot of people like outside of /mu/. Remember that being your own special little snowflake is an encouraged behaviour, and you should show this by flaunting your chart and last.fm in peoples faces, filled with music by obscure EAI, Onkyokei and field recording artists from countries that you can't even pronounce.

You can download (nearly) all essential charts from here.

Spotify Playlists
 00s: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/00P82BvOAi6LiJDNdEpTPA?si=5GTfzQySTRiJI4Zm4Drlww

60s: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/3qGKAPYDcJJYnykiKAdYl8?si=-0-mn1eNS4OrQirZdNtTHg

60s Psychedelica: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/1RRz2YF1XGFcTQAyDfl5K6?si=fcqYvu2tQm-P-O7BVYx-tQ

70s: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/0TTljewxImLuYtYpJ3k5Of?si=iIM91zA0SH6W0xYqOFu4sg

70s Punk: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/07nxmQutHkzEO3vKAQmf4S?si=ut9aMWTlS3iQx1dELksHnA

80s Punk/Hardcore: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/24NTiYH2JAHpntoNWRqV0R?si=tPc5n3sXR8iSpY5AtKlivA

90s: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/5Ew3VJcVUyaHJOkqCGQklo?si=hMkpjiEWTQ6uqhDhMydvcQ

90s Grunge: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/59IcxomCCmb9z23eNZ5hyc?si=HAcSkAegTQa_S4p-GhuyFA

90s Pop Punk: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/0KqasCXU69thP7A1U87S9y?si=PZF4knziSuqCqZkR21JAiQ

00s Indie: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/3aJyN9c1PO8ny8hBPnopMO?si=FkGoq3VRSMSwWp1lYiViCg

00s-10s Punk: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/2TYy6GH48NDTFfsTL9vJfQ?si=psYjiFCIT5ewG0z1gatGZA

Alternative: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/3s2ey2g9CFTYG7AQkulJ5c?si=XGS038aTTnSWIp4FfGthjw

Art Pop: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/0Mr5y6fSgtXeEisl97jelq?si=X5PpslO3TDuIE-xSp8bZVQ

Art Punk: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/4YUnByM5L2C0nJIQ2tPui1?si=rcfrFqilTGGAxtQW4AGy2w

Britpop: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/2BhZ4Rg3lqbf6Pdq902gpq?si=h_Nji9iQSM6C_425oXRvOQ

Dirge Music: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/6PyS3axPYZrxyRZPHy8zsC?si=L94zLSwsSxe9onV2Jirh6g

East Coast Hip Hop: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/76gVjLgldTNfwrn3vL29cR?si=gjlF3-UYTE-HsASc1HgJ3w

Emo: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/3EzGDQA5CmRTGEX4x9xhlG?si=6Hw-99YlSo-ovaYobWze_A

Fall Core: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/3Y4szJ0TPF4lbw5ObRB5zf?si=xgSuLZleTRGvDsmQpWL5YQ

Folk: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/59kJYp8TJyJFt8jNr4pJ90?si=MT_bk9s8RyuAvtWG9Zt07Q

Folk Punk: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/1xO5T2yuEK7LSEg0fK4w0i?si=3kp7DIBlTD-e7zDO6tiaVw

Funk: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/7MObrJ5q2yoml6mLFkLl77?si=WH4Mnxq2QnSPaTTfmOhJHA

Goth: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/6LriF8Ds2l08zpwkmcTmx8?si=HpMoGN-tTGa6sMc3CKRLow

Grunge: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/6wYGj6O3q4BsvgxmEEbMFP?si=9Qm6YkUXQWal_HEWgS_krw

Happy Music: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/5FGHXWNThaDPKXNRHQUBAV?si=ROBHLYIKThGgQ2pUadzlVg

Heavy Metal: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/4wuqa7sWkldgYHTP2AK4Kj?si=zDT_DXOMQxaR9V7AVg-psg

Indie Pop: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/0w72jkLjmhipqcmi3inW8z?si=Src4U0dMRdicfR31j1ShYg

Jangle Pop: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/18xJfkuTDkfrBkw03Rl3K2?si=sRr3O7hQS5as94dXSKQNcA

Krautrock: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/74cfhiQzYmhvTLUpAEmzYg?si=3JXgLJ17QW6OD1t8J1U3HA

Math Rock: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/2JXvC0ghyPHaEF9SURICtk?si=5O6Gz-J_SiubyFA1ZApyWw

Neo Psychedelia: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/05uGDlCGnsocmASjJ7coLj?si=1Ko1ekBPQzWsJf7nQ3rUsw

New Wave: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/67RpyXoFbVtSrnl8FFtm0y?si=41eMUwjST8mx8QRSjp6iCA

Patrician Core: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/5IgTzITXQNgbzjAoRKf01J?si=HgKwBkiaTHeYJpkxF5gnSQ

Pop Punk: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/7fXkEoNHbWH1zwqBa4rNM7?si=2bSgHG02R_aj2Nb00JDp_Q

Post Punk (Begginer) : https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/6k5tARsJf4D2Od3SOOFYe2?si=uBwvaFakRUGeqs_NlacTlQ

Post Punk (Expert): https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/0G9ViKhkrZZIlsDVT3vRvW?si=TxvZBKjaSH-Btofp54meeA

Post Rock: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/3dUyJhmZrb3M373vPqJXBz?si=ePchHLe0TeWGFsH9B84TkA

Power Pop: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/0ZbprxU35VmYNAmyV79nwu?si=zL1st-QgTmuSrNMQcidHEQ

Prog (Beginner): https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/6ALxSsIDjgIUudtRbGUXcc?si=pfgn1Z_0QByyu-zAjUb8ng

Proto-Punk: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/4uyQLKWoyXDu41ZpuOO1V9?si=Nffa-kXjQie-RywFajUE0Q

Psychobilly: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/7xGpibut48QDcliUo7O6HV?si=tgoFryu0TgaQpJSbmJPO_Q

Shoegaze/Dreampop: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/31inWLkG8AnRQrMiSJT7zq?si=wRCSJ9HFQsmnBOVOMoJqTA

Slowcore: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/3kWvva1fqxTv3Q2qbGUk6C?si=Qklg8J8ITamstM-zJBTbNw

Stoner Rock: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/5tqUXlyCophyD3E0SNUq1o?si=sluyMPlIT2W9d3gZHVX1ew

Summer Core: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/6LbKNSI4Bbh7szrRqhrpaX?si=GEF4gVExQHq4naUWtgSy9g

Synthpop: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/7GK9ogJm9j6yVGJumaZgM1?si=00cuAcNGQDi173gIvCY3kw

Twee Pop: https://open.spotify.com/user/billtwyford/playlist/7yp4ueP8yz7swZuj5ce0uf?si=NTsgnaWPTQCqMiElqfycjA

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