Amazing Things

Studio album by Runrig

Released

1993

Recorded

Castlesound Studios, Pentcaitland, Scotland

Genre

Celtic rock

Length

57:40

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.

Track listing

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

Personnel

Iain Bayne: drums, percussion
Malcolm Jones: guitars, banjo, mandolin, accordion, pipes, bass guitar, backing vocals
Calum Macdonald: percussion, spoken vocals
Rory Macdonald: vocals, bass guitar, accordion
Donnie Munro: lead vocals
Peter Wishart: keyboards

Runrig

Rory Macdonald Calum Macdonald Malcolm Jones Iain Bayne Bruce Guthro Brian Hurren Campbell Gunn Robert Macdonald Blair Douglas Richard Cherns Donnie Munro Pete Wishart

Studio albums	Play Gaelic The Highland Connection Recovery Heartland The Cutter and the Clan Searchlight The Big Wheel Amazing Things Mara In Search of Angels The Stamping Ground Proterra Everything You See The Story

Live albums	Once in a Lifetime Transmitting Live Live at Celtic Connections 2000 Day of Days Year of the Flood

Compilations	Long Distance The Gaelic Collection The Best: Thirty Year Journey 50 Great Songs

Live videos and DVDs	City of Lights Wheel in Motion Air an Oir Live at Stirling Castle: Donnie Munro's Farewell Live in Bonn Day of Days Mod for Rockers Year of the Flood

Singles	Loch Lomond Dance Called America Skye The Work Song Worker for the Wind Protect and Survive News From Heaven Every River Capture the Heart Hearthammer (EP) Flower of the West Wonderful The Greatest Flame This Time of Year An Ubhal as Airde Things That Are Rhythm of My Heart The Greatest Flame (1996) The Message Maymorning This Is Not a Love Song Book of Golden Stories Empty Glens Year of the Flood Clash of the Ash Loch Lomond (with Tartan Army) (2007) Year of the Flood (2008) Road Trip

See also	The Band from Rockall

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