Repeat When Necessary

Repeat When Necessary
Studio album by Dave Edmunds
Released 8 June 1979[1]
Recorded 1978
Studio Eden Studios, London[2]
Genre Rock
Length 34:10
Label Swan Song
Producer Dave Edmunds
Dave Edmunds chronology
Tracks on Wax 4
(1978)Tracks on Wax 41978		 Repeat When Necessary
(1979)		 Twangin...
(1981)Twangin...1981
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[4]
Smash Hits7/10[5]
The Village VoiceA−[6]

Repeat When Necessary is the fifth album by Welsh rock musician Dave Edmunds.

Recording and release

Produced by Edmunds, it was released in 1979 by Swan Song Records (see 1979 in music). 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, collectively known as Rockpile.

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.

Among the more obscure covers on the album are "Dynamite" (originally recorded by Cliff Richard) and "Take Me For A Little While" (originally recorded by Evie Sands and later covered by 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.

LP track listing

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) – 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 Mister 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) – 3:11

Note: Bremner used the pseudonym "Billy Murray" for all his writing credits on the album.

Personnel

Additional personnel

Album charts

  • Sweden-17[7]
  • UK-39
  • US-54

Certifications

UK-Silver[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Random Notes". Rolling Stone. Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. (293): 46. June 14, 1979.
  2. ↑ "Long Player: Rockpile delivered guitar-driven treasures". 8 December 2012. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  3. ↑ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Repeat When Necessary – Dave Edmunds". AllMusic. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
  4. ↑ Hull, Tom (2004). "Dave Edmunds". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian. The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. p. 272. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  5. ↑ Starr, Red (12–25 July 1979). "Albums". Smash Hits: 25.
  6. ↑ Christgau, Robert (30 July 1979). "Christgau's Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
  7. ↑ Hung, Steffen. "swedishcharts.com - Swedish Charts Portal". swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  8. ↑ http://www.bpi.co.uk/certified-awards.aspx
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