Amazing Things (Runrig album)

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Amazing Things
Amazing Things.jpeg
Studio album by
Runrig
Released15 March 1993
StudioCastlesound Studios, Pentcaitland, Scotland
GenreCeltic rock
Length57:40
LabelChrysalis
ProducerChris Harley
Runrig chronology
The Big Wheel
(1991) 		Amazing Things
(1993) 		Mara
(1995)

Amazing Things is the eighth studio album by Scottish Celtic rock band Runrig, released in 1993. Amazing Things was ranked the third 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.

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[]

Charts[]

Chart performance for Amazing Things
Chart (1993) Peak
position
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[1] 47
UK Albums (OCC)[2] 2

References[]

  1. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Runrig – Amazing Things" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  2. ^ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
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