Mother’s Day Gift Guide: Music

OUR experts have picked the perfect pressies for all pockets and tastes to help you give mum the special day she deserves. 

Spoil mum this Mother’s Day with gift ideas from our team of experts.

MUSIC: Mum won’t be able to resist singing along to these great tunes

Mark Vincent: Best So Far

Mark Vincent, Best So Far

This compilation is subtitled ‘fans favourites’. And let’s be honest, Mark’s main fans are mums. Vincent won Australia’s Got Talent aged 15 five years ago, since then he’s banged out an impressive five albums of classically-influenced cover versions, all designed to quell road rage as mum’s driving in the car. This Greatest Hits set features You Raise Me Up, Hallelujah, Nessun Dorma, Music of the Night and Ave Maria. And with his own Greatest Hits and just out of his teens, Vincent is the kind of overachiever that makes mums proud. 

George Michael: Symphonica

George Michael, Symphonica

It’s George Michael, but with an orchestra. Showcasing the voice that has charmed the world since 1982, George powers through his own hits (One More Try, Praying For Time, A Different Corner) and some classics including Feeling Good, Brother Can You Spare a Dime, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face and My Baby Just Cares For Me. 

Harrison Craig: L.O.V.E

Harrison Craig, L.O.V.E

Remember him from The Voice? The dude who loved his mother, stumbled over his speech but sang like a bird? This album is like someone who can really sing doing karaoke – familiar versions of Robbie Williams’ Angels, John Legend’s All of Me, John Paul Young’s Love is in the Air as well as highly-mum-friendly reworkings of songs by the Everly Brothers, Nat King Cole and Andrea Bocelli. 

Rachael Leahcar: Here Comes The Sun

Mother's Day Gift Guide 2014 - Rachael Leahcar, Here Comes The Sun

Another Mother’s Day, another covers album from Rachael Leahcar. She was the lass on The Voice, season one. After going indie last year (Gotye, Bon Iver) she’s hit the motherlode – Beatles covers. Yes, if you want really delicate, polite versions of Blackbird, Yesterday, Something, Hey Jude, Let It Be and Imagine (they’re pushing the Beatles thing, but hey) you’re in luck. 

Tim Campbell: High School Disco

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That bloke from the telly is also a singer – here he relives his youth by pumping out 80s covers like it’s a Blue Light Disco. There’s Don’t You Forget About Me, Centrefold, My Sharona, Footloose, Faith, Holiday and a What I Like About You/R.O.C.K in the USA mash-up. For mums who like to party like it’s 1989.

CONTRIBUTIONS from fashion and beauty writer Anna Byrne, books editor Blanche Clark, music writer Cameron Adams, Shop SMART editor Renata Gorton,  technology writer Rod Chester, lifestyle editor Jessica Leo, food writer Dan Stock and wine writer Tony Love.