Cassone Entertainment and Media: Best of 2018 in Music and Recordings

Sunday, December 9, 2018

Best of 2018 in Music and Recordings

It is that time of the year where we take a look back and reflect on the best in entertainment. As I said last week, when I reviewed my picks in Television; it has been a few years since I did this. I have forgotten how much fun it was reflecting on such things, especially in a year with so much diversity. Of course, if you go by the Billboard chart you may be a bit disappointed if you think you will find much of anything of merit there. It has been a rough and repetitive year in "popular" music. Maybe it is because I am getting older, but a lot of it sounds like crap to me. If I can be so blunt.

That being said, there are some gems there and I mostly stumbled upon some diamonds in the rough through friends and family, and people on my various social media platforms. I create these lists to share with my public what I like, what I feel is the cream of the crop in these various fields of entertainment and my highest of recommendations.

Per usual, some of my choices may surprise, but for the most part I am proud of my list (narrowed down to 31 entries, from my original shortlist of 62). I still am baffled when critics can come up with just 10. It helped me to concentrate on albums. Childish Gambino's This Is America is actually the only "single" to make my list this year. The other 30 are albums, audiobooks and a podcast.

All listed in alphabetical order by title.

Enjoy & be entertained.

A lot of these you can listen to (and watch) through dynamic searches on YouTube.