Repeat When Necessary


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

"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 (Cliff Richard and [the Shadows song)|Dynamite]" and "Take Me for a Little While". "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 the News album)|Sports].

Critical reception

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."
DownBeat assigned the album 4 stars.

Track listing

Side one
  1. "Girls Talk" – 3:25
  2. "Crawling from the Wreckage" – 2:53
  3. "The Creature from the Black Lagoon" – 3:52
  4. "Sweet Little Lisa" – 3:38
  5. "Dynamite" – 2:33
Side two
  1. "Queen of Hearts" – 3:17
  2. "Home in My Hand" – 3:20
  3. "Goodbye Mr. Good Guy" – 2:40
  4. "Take Me for a Little While" – 2:39
  5. "We Were Both Wrong" – 2:42
  6. "Bad Is Bad" – 3:11

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