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

"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.

Among the more obscure covers on the album are "Dynamite" (originally recorded by Cliff Richard and the Shadows) and "Take Me for a Little While" (originally recorded by Evie Sands and later covered by Jackie Ross, Dusty Springfield and Vanilla Fudge).

"Home in My Hand" had been recorded seven years previously by Nick Lowe's old band, Brinsley Schwarz.

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.