What is Prospekt's March & What is Poppyfields

[ShaftX]

I think this question deserves it's own topic. Does anyone know why it's called Prospekt's March / Poppyfields? Everyone says something different!

[andrea25]

i think poppyfields are the last seconds of the song.

and btw, it's "poppyfields" or "poppy fields"?

[Yellow Hill]

I have the same question.

Ya I think Poppy Fields is the last Part

[jc90]

i think its just one song with 2 names....btw, its Poppy [SPACE] Fields

[Lyric]

i think its just one song with 2 names....

I agree.

[Cobalt]

2:44 onwards is Poppy Fields I think

[Benjamin]

i think its just one song with 2 names....btw, its Poppy [SPACE] Fields

Nah, sorry.

It's 'Poppyfields'. It's clearly one word on the case.

[givelovesolong]

One word; Poppyfields.

Two songs; 2.54 onwards is the aforementioned 'Poppyfields'. :D

[Outrune]

Yeah, it sez "Poppy Fields" on the VLV booklet painting and the alternate tracklisting and it obviously got changed to one word before being released.

[Remcoowtje]

It's a great EP, I really like it except for the 2 remixes. They suck and I don't think they belong on this EP.

[Stefan-C8]

I think Poppyfields are indeed the last 40 seconds or so...

[Spies88]

i was quite upset when poppy fields had no lyrics......

[Eh Steve!]

personally i think it blends together at 1:02

[crestingwaves]

A question for the Oracle no doubt!

I'm also quite dissappointed that it wasn't a song in itself. I was always looking forward to hearing Poppy Fields. Now its more like poopy fields..

In saying that, it is a cool little outro.

[- Gabriel]

personally i think it blends together at 1:02That's sort of what I thought, but I imagined the transition at 1:53. It (sort of) changes keys at that point and the mood changes from despair to hopefulness. Both points seem logical, though. I just don't think the instrumental ending is Poppy Fields, or at least I don't want to think it is.
By way, I love the instrumental ending because to me it represents how the troubles in Prospekt's March have not been resolved; the band could have wrapped the song up in a purty little ending chord, but I think the curious ending does the theme more justice. It's like Prospekt's March is the speaker realizing all the things that are going wrong, Poppy Fields is the speaker hoping for something better, and the ending is him staring into the distance realizing that for all his hopefulness these problems will not go away. By not offering a resolution, the problems he sings about seem much more real. At least to me.

A question for the Oracle no doubt!Yup!

[Mig-El]

you already asked the Oracle?

[Famous Old Painter]

I still think they're different names for the one song. Has anyone ever seen Poppyfields and Prospekts March in the same list without it being Prospekts March/Poppyfields?

[Navegador]

@Famous Old Painters
http://wiki.coldplaying.com/images/8/8b/LP4_Tracklisting3.jpg

This is the first announced playlist for our so-called LP4 (untitled then).
Obviously, it was changed later, closer to the release (the final playlist was announced on April 10th).

As you can see, "Poppy Fields" (there, two words, read my idea above for further info) was going to be Track #4 and Prospekt's March was going to be Track #11.

Despite that, "Prospekt's March" and "Poppyfields" or "Poppy Fields" (you can't determine whether its one or two words looking at VLV booklet) are seen together in VLV booklet, we can conclude that inicially, they were separated songs, then they made a song called "Prospekt's March/Poppyfields" (which is Prospekt's March and an excerpt of Poppy Fields) and planned to add it to the album, being dropped at the final tracklist.

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I think that the outro is just an excerpt of the song called "Poppy Fields", because you can see there's no natural start and end for this song, just a fade in and a fade out.
I also think that this excerpt of "Poppy Fields" is called "Poppyfields".

Oasis inserted two excerpts of "Swamp Song" in (What's The Story) Morning Glory?, why can't Coldplay insert an excerpt of Poppy Fields in the Prospekt's March EP?

[aloverinjapan]

[QUOTE=crestingwaves;2654604]A question for the Oracle no doubt!


I do agree,crestingwaves,i do:dozey:

[Famous Old Painter]

@Famous Old Painters
http://wiki.coldplaying.com/images/8/8b/LP4_Tracklisting3.jpg

This is the first announced playlist for our so-called LP4 (untitled then).
Obviously, it was changed later, closer to the release (the final playlist was announced on April 10th).

As you can see, "Poppy Fields" (there, two words, read my idea above for further info) was going to be Track #4 and Prospekt's March was going to be Track #11.

Interesting theory, but it wasn't. That's simply an image made on the Coldplay Wiki combining all the song titles from the Prospekt Timeline thing that had been revealed at that point, by no means official.

[Outrune]

The Glass of Water widget thing that let us preview the EP tracks referred to PM as simply "Prospekt's March", no mention of the Poppyfields part. And the supposed Poppyfields instrumental at the end wasn't part of the preview.
This counts towards the two being separate songs.

And yeah, that image above is a photoshop job of all the song titles mentioned in Prospekt's journal together, was never a tracklist of any sort.

[coldplayGeorgia!]

my opinion about prospekt's march


it's a song like a review of a whole road they've done so far with uprising and downgoing moments in the song it means there were some difficulties and happinesses....... the Melody and lirycs of the song are telling me that
well that's my opinion anyway :)
sorry for bad english