Album · Dave Edmunds
Repeat When Necessary by Dave Edmunds
Repeat When Necessary is an album by Dave Edmunds, released in 1979. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 12 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Crawling From The Wreckage”, on 6 lists with a best position of #511.
Repeat When Necessary, Dave Edmunds' fifth album, came out on Swan Song in 1979, cut at Eden Studios with Edmunds producing himself. It was made side by side with Nick Lowe's Labour of Lust, by the same gang: Edmunds, Lowe, Billy Bremner and Terry Williams, the Rockpile crew that contracts kept from recording under its own name.
What you get is pub rock at full pint: twanging, rockabilly-flavoured guitars, tight three-minute songs and a band that sounds like it's playing for the sheer kick of it. Edmunds scored with other writers' songs in this stretch, and two of the standouts are borrowed: Elvis Costello's "Girls Talk", all bittersweet jangle, and Graham Parker's "Crawling from the Wreckage", a revved-up hot-rod rocker.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Repeat When Necessary on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crawling From The Wreckage | 6 | #511 | – | 1999–2022 | |
| 2 | Girls Talk | 6 | #395 | – | 1999–2004 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.