Amazing Things (Runrig album) explained

Amazing Things
Type:	studio
Artist:	Runrig
Cover:	Amazing Things.jpeg
Released:	15 March 1993
Studio:	Castlesound Studios, Pentcaitland, Scotland
Genre:	Celtic rock
Length:	57:40
Label:	Chrysalis^[1]
Producer:	Chris Harley
Prev Title:	The Big Wheel
Prev Year:	1991
Next Title:	Mara
Next Year:	1995

Amazing Things is the eighth studio album by the Scottish Celtic rock band Runrig, released in 1993.^[2]

The cover features a close-up photo of the Hugh MacDiarmid Memorial, near Langholm, created by sculptor Jake Harvey.^[3]

Critical reception

The Waterloo Region Record wrote that "Runrig is relentlessly serious, their music always skirting the edges of overkill."^[4] The Times opined that the band sounds "like a rockier version of Chris De Burgh on 'Dream Fields' and 'Move a Mountain'."^[5]

AllMusic noted that "the folk genre that dominated their early independent albums had virtually disappeared and had been replaced by an anthemic rock sound heavily influenced by their fellow Scots countrymen Big Country and Irish band U2."

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

• 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

Notes and References

1. Book: Horn, David. Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 11: Genres: Europe. 5 October 2017. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. 9781501326103 . Google Books.
2. Web site: Runrig Biography, Songs, & Albums. AllMusic.
3. Book: Windsor, Alan. British Sculptors of the Twentieth Century. 10 September 2020. Routledge. 9781000160529 . Google Books.
4. News: Randall . Neil . Amazing Things Runrig . Waterloo Region Record . 22 April 1993 . D9.
5. News: Sinclair . David . RUNRIG Amazing Things . The Times . 19 March 1993 . Features . 37.