Ending it in  and putting  acts in an influence section just because Simon Reynolds ended his book in  is wrong Great book and the bible if you will but if you read the last chapter he ended it in  because HE became disinterested due to the trend towered roots rock and s influences that occurred in  He never said it ended in  and indeed many reliable sources described acts as post punk throughout the late s and s The bigger problem with the definitions of late s acts was put succinctly by Jon Pareles in  when he wrote Alternative independent postpunk new wave  whatever its called at the moment