Amazing Things

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Amazing Things
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Studio album by
Released15 March 1993
RecordedCastlesound Studios, Pentcaitland, Scotland
Genre Celtic rock
Length57:40
Label Chrysalis
Producer Chris Harley
Runrig chronology
The Big Wheel
(1991)
Amazing Things
(1993)
Mara
(1995)

Amazing Things is a 1993 album, the eighth by Scottish Celtic rock band Runrig. Amazing Things was ranked the #3 best album of the 1990s in the music review column The War Against Silence by Glenn McDonald: "The most life-affirming album ever made. Maybe the most life-affirming art work ever made."

The cover features a close-up photo of the Hugh MacDiarmid Memorial near Langholm created by sculptor Jake Harvey. Macdiarmid memorial 1.jpg
The cover features a close-up photo of the Hugh MacDiarmid Memorial near Langholm created by sculptor Jake Harvey.

The cover features a close-up photo of the Hugh MacDiarmid Memorial near Langholm created by sculptor Jake Harvey.

Pòg Aon Oidhche Earraich was used in the animated BBC Doctor Who web drama 'Death Come to Time' during the death scene of the Seventh Doctor.

Track listing

  1. "Amazing Things" - 4:18
  2. "Wonderful" - 4:11
  3. "The Greatest Flame" - 5:04
  4. "Move a Mountain" - 5:13
  5. "Pòg Aon Oidhche Earraich" (A Kiss One Spring Evening) - 3:38
  6. "Dream Fields" - 5:54
  7. "Song of the Earth" - 4:52
  8. "Forever Eyes of Blue" - 4:09
  9. "Sràidean na Roinn-Eòrpa" (Streets of Europe) - 5:24
  10. "Canada" - 5:12
  11. "Àrd" (High) - 6:00
  12. "On the Edge" - 3:53

Personnel


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