Jake Brennan (Host)

And we got this ongoing conversation that's just forever happening.

Phone, voicemail, text, and email.

Speaking of which...

We got a very thoughtful email from Tom Powell who writes in, hey, Tom from the 541 here.

I have some thoughts on this list.

Tom's talking about the Rolling Stone Top 100 Punk Albums list that we discussed last week.

Tom goes on to say, first...

On the question of what is punk, I ultimately don't care.

It's either good rock and roll or not.

But here's how I like to think of it.

The real punk was a brief period in 1976 and 1977 centered in London, New York, and Los Angeles.

It was carried on after that by hardcore in the United States and oi crust anarcho in the UK.

Everything else before is proto-punk.

Everything else after is post-punk.

works for my linear brain.

I can get with this.

As for the list, the way I look at these lists is to completely disregard the rankings and just think of it as, here's 100 great punk and punk-related albums to hear.

The rankings are just splitting hairs.

You know, he's got a real good point, Tom.

Overall, Tom says, it's a good list.