Repeat When Necessary

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Repeat When Necessary
Studio album by
Dave Edmunds
Released8 June 1979 (1979-06-08)[1]
Recorded1978
StudioEden, London[2]
GenreRock
Length34:10
LabelSwan Song
ProducerDave Edmunds
Dave Edmunds chronology
Tracks on Wax 4
(1978) 		Repeat When Necessary
(1979) 		Twangin...
(1981)

Repeat When Necessary is the fifth album by Welsh rock musician Dave Edmunds. Produced by Edmunds, it was released in 1979 by Swan Song Records. It was recorded and released at the same time as Nick Lowe's Labour of Lust, and features the same lineup of musicians: Edmunds, Lowe, Billy Bremner and Terry Williams.

Content

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"Girls Talk", written by Elvis Costello, Graham Parker's "Crawling from the Wreckage" and the Hank DeVito-penned "Queen of Hearts" are among the highlights of this album. Juice Newton would cover "Queen of Hearts" in an arrangement virtually identical to Edmunds' on Juice, her 1981 breakthrough album.

Other covers on the album include "Dynamite" (originally recorded by Cliff Richard (1959)) and "Take Me for a Little While" (originally recorded by Evie Sands and later covered by Jackie Ross (1965), Dusty Springfield and Vanilla Fudge). "Home in My Hand" had been recorded seven years previously by Nick Lowe's old band, Brinsley Schwarz. "Bad Is Bad", written by Huey Lewis, would later be recorded by Lewis and his band the News for their 1983 multi-platinum album Sports.

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStarStarHalf star[3]
Music WeekStarStarStar[4]
The Rolling Stone Album GuideStarStarStarStar[5]
Smash Hits7/10[6]
The Village VoiceA−[7]

The Globe and Mail wrote that "Edmund's pub-crawling rock doesn't wear thin if you're sipping and stomping along, but in the confines of your living room his Chuck Berry retakes are liable to send you back to an old Berry collection to find out where he copped the licks."[8]

Track listing

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Side one

  1. "Girls Talk" (Elvis Costello) – 3:25
  2. "Crawling from the Wreckage" (Graham Parker) – 2:53
  3. "The Creature from the Black Lagoon" (Billy Bremner[9]) – 3:52
  4. "Sweet Little Lisa" (Donivan Cowart, Martin Cowart, Hank DeVito) – 3:38
  5. "Dynamite" (Ian Samwell) – 2:33

Side two

  1. "Queen of Hearts" (Hank DeVito) – 3:17
  2. "Home in My Hand" (Ronnie Self) – 3:20
  3. "Goodbye Mr. Good Guy" (Pat Meager, Bremner) – 2:40
  4. "Take Me for a Little While" (Trade Martin) – 2:39
  5. "We Were Both Wrong" (Bremner) – 2:42
  6. "Bad Is Bad" (Alex Call, John Ciambotti, Sean Hopper, Huey Lewis, John McFee, Michael Schriener)[10] – 3:11

Personnel

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Additional personnel

Charts

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Chart (1979–80) Peak
position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)[11] 37
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[12] 45
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[13] 17
UK Albums (OCC)[14] 39
US Billboard 200[15] 54

Certifications

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Region Certification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[16] Silver 60,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

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  9. ^ Billy Bremner used the pseudonym "Billy Murray" for all his writing credits on this album; "Murray" is his middle name.
  10. ^ Original pressings of Repeat When Necessary (Swan Song/Atlantic cat. no. SS 8507) credit "Bad is Bad" to Huey Lewis alone; the revised credit given on Lewis' 1983 album Sports (Chrysalis cat.no. FV 41412) is shown here.
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  12. ^ "Charts.nz – Dave Edmunds – Repeat When Necessary". Hung Medien. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  13. ^ "Swedishcharts.com – Dave Edmunds – Repeat When Necessary". Hung Medien. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  14. ^ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  15. ^ "Dave Edmunds Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
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