| Final Fantasy VIII: Piano Collections | 
 enlarge | Artists: Nobuo Uematsu, Shinko Ogata, Shiro Hamaguchi
Label: Jms
Category: Music
List Price: $44.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 88661
Format: Soundtrack, Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
EAN: 4517331100416
ASIN: B000058AB3
Release Date: January 5, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Blue Fields | | • | Eyes On Me | | • | Fisherman's Horizon | | • | Succession Of Witches | | • | Ami | | • | Shuffle Or Boogie | | • | Find Your Way | | • | Oath | | • | Silence And Motion | | • | Castle | | • | Successor | | • | Ending Theme | | • | Slide Show Part 2 |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
Wonderful November 18, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved the compositions from the game and I think Nobuo Uematsu is a great composer, fitting perfect music for perfect environments.
However, I could not abide the repetative synthesised instruments that accompanied the music on most occasions. I recently bought the original FF8, thinking they perhaps implemented real instruments..but no luck.
Then I saw this! Absolutely amazing... A single pianist plays 13 of the greatest FF8 tracks, with clever re-arrangements, you can listen to this, fully imersed in the Final Fantasy atmosphere. My highlight must be the card game theme, shuffle or boogie...an excellent take on the 12 bar blues. Anyway, yes, buy this! Also you get it in Japanese packaging...which is always good, for some bizarre reason the have a little plastic see-though sheath which the real case goes in...lovely.
Beautiul music (and I hate the game too..) November 13, 2004
Yes, I'm one of those people who hate FF8. Having said that, I heard a friend play this music one time, and not being that familiar with the music, I was intrigued. He told me what it was and after listening to 2 tracks, I bought the album. And it's nothing short of GREAT. The composer is a genius, and I'm now thingking about getting all the Piano Collections. It's a shame not many people know that game music is as beautiful as this.
Amazing April 17, 2004
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This album is terrific. I admire all the songs on here. This is probably a must buy CD for those who like the game Final Fantasy VIII and piano like songish...not sure if that's a word, but yeah.
Excellent arrangement of old favorites January 6, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Quite simply, this is some of the most relaxing piano music that I have heard in a long time. This cd takes music from the game that is related to love, exploration and ambience, and arranges it in piano form. No fast-paced battle music on this cd(which would be pretty hard to turn into piano anyway, so I'm not complaining). Some of my favorites are AMI(which includes the Balamb Garden theme), The Oath, Succession of Witches, and Find Your Way. All of them work very well as piano arrangements while still keeping the feel of the original. Every piece on this cd is good, though I question the descision that put a ragtime piece in as the last song. It just doesn't fit with the rest of the cd. And I don't think that the Triple Triad theme(Shuffle or Boogie) needed to be arranged(can we please all just pretend that the game never existed?). The game itself wasn't that great. But this cd is. A tad expensive, but if you like piano music, this is an excellent cd. Very good for playing while reading, doing homework, etc.
Great August 8, 2003
This is one of my favorite CDs to listen to while reading. While many fans of the Final Fantasy series of games might wish that the game never existed, the music from it makes everything cool. My favorite tracks on this album are Blue Fields, the world map music, and Fisherman's Horizon. A great CD to have in the background gives the room an atmoshphereic feel.
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