Repeat When Necessary (studio album)
by Dave Edmunds

Repeat When Necessary by Dave Edmunds
Year: 1979
Overall rank: 19,582nd   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 32 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1979 (235th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (2,472nd)
Award Best albums of all time (19,582nd)

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Dave Edmunds bestography

Repeat When Necessary is ranked 2nd best out of 13 albums by Dave Edmunds on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Dave Edmunds is Get It which is ranked number 12208 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 94.

Dave Edmunds album bestography « Higher ranked (12,208th)
Get It
This album (19,582nd)
Repeat When Necessary
Lower ranked (21,091st) »
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(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 32 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 23% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.7/100, a mean average of 74.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 9.8.

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This is pure rock'n roll the way Dave Edmunds communicate it: fast, simple ... and with a lot of 50's feeling. Dave is a purist musician with a lot of love to the early times of rock (Perkins, Presley and the Sun sound generally)!
I loved "I hear you knocking" and the album "Repeat when necessary" is just one out of several excellent records he has made in this genre. He's a genius in his field!
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