Album Rating: 4.0



Commercial music is by definition music that is intentionally written for the sole purpose of making money. Well-crafted pop music like Blackfield or PT's catchier tracks isn't necessarily commercial in its essence

Firstly, that's not the proper definition of commercial music, but whatever. Secondly, sure there's a lot of muzak, but my fav artists? No, they're doing well-crafted pop music.

Makes me wonder what's so well-crafted about Blackfield. Because the lyrics make Fear of a Blank Planet read like Dostoyevsky, the compositions are laughably simple and the melodies banal.

Album Rating: 5.0

you must be fun at parties

Actually I am, but thanks for psychoanalysis

Album Rating: 5.0

anytime

Album Rating: 4.0

I'm not particularly fond of Blackfield, but I consider a few of their compositions (the title-song, Open Mind, Once) as "well-crafted pop music." Still, there is a lot of utterly unimaginative songwriting throughout their discography

Now, let's define "well-crafted pop music": music which centers on the song as a main medium, creating a short, cohesive and rather accessible piece of music, while still retaining a certain musical and sonic quality in its melodic and harmonic elements. On the other hand, badly-crafted pop music would rehash simple melodic jingles and patterns, broadly

Also, while I do value lyrical content in music a lot, pop music's focus is on its accessibility, and well-written lyrics can be a valuable addition, but not a fundamental one.

And it's not necessarily because they're my favourite artists that I picked them as examples, but because they were contextually accurate and correspond to my (obviously subjective) definition.

Album Rating: 4.0

lol Toronto.....alter's the man!

Album Rating: 5.0

Yo, Blackfield II has some bangers on it.



It's everything else Blackfield did that is shit

Album Rating: 4.3

No, their debut was the best

Album Rating: 4.5

Debut is good although II has the better BF songs.

Album Rating: 5.0

Linton Samuel Dawson is a banger, no doubt

Album Rating: 4.5

lol

this album is dream theater level of monotony

Album Rating: 5.0

Don't confuse this band with Between the Buried and Me

listening to these guys is such a chore tbh

they fall into the same problems most boring prog rock does

Album Rating: 5.0

bro you like linkin park and panic at the disco so just keep that in mind before you continue to be an annoying little flopcock :P. Hugs and Kisses

Album Rating: 4.3

lol

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah, guys, this is boring af, how can anyone listen to this?

Album Rating: 5.0

You have to a very very boring and uninteresting individual with an inferior musical comrpehension complex. If you like this there's also a very high chance you have an abnormally small pecker so watch out myth. :P

Album Rating: 4.0

T/t is such a treat, love how the bass bounces between the main riff.