Learning To Fly: pop song or not?

....and its black metal influenced by Darkthrone

And of course by then vinyl was being made cheaply with thin pressings that were poorly grooved, had bad posterboard covers, and crinkly plastic sleeves.   My copy would skip for no reason and began to warp like a cheap pair of sunglasses lying in the sun.

yeah some of those were radio friendly...  much like Steely Dan.. radio friendly.. but not pop by any stretch of the imagination. Sometimes even the deep, thoughtful, even complex do crossover to wide audience.  The intent of those songs Doc were not merely sell a bunch of records but to create an artistic statement. .to say something.  

that album was nothing more than 2nd .. 3rd rate MTV friendly songwriting with done nothing more than cash in.. as well as flip the bird at a former member.

so in return buddy... I'll give you an A+.  No it is not important..  

which again makes the completely inane and disposable nature of the songs and thus that album all the more glaring in comparison to the creative force they no longer had in that group. A song writer who .. excesses and mental maturbation aside.. had a vision and wrote thoughtful and deep lyrics

which of course the lack of which.. is a hallmark of pop music. 

if that aint' a pop song.. what is... what else would one call it. It and that whole sh*t stain of an album were made for one reason and one reason only (if one doesn't count the big f**k you given out to the Rog).. to pry the kiddies and old fans of their money with a MTV driven appeals to nostalgia and the band they used to be when they actually had a member who could write songs...

Exactly, pop/rock is different from pop-rock the genre. But would I call Learning To Fly specifically a pop-rock song?  Yes.