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~ The Who
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  • Audio CD (24 Mar 1997)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Polydor
  • ASIN: B00000844N
  • Other Editions: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 175,975 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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A pivotal album in the early career of The Who, A QUICK ONEis the bridge between the band's original incarnation as a hard rockin' mod pop group and its subsequent, more ambitious, experimental phase. The album is also notable because it's centerpiece, "A Quick One, While He's Away", represents Pete Townshend's first attempt at "rock opera", a form which he and The Who would later perfect on TOMMY and QUADROPHENIA.The ten-minute track contains all the elements of the trademark Who style--complex arrangements and vocal harmonies, alternating heavy electric and light acoustic passages and a preoccupation with issues of morality and sexuality.
Also interesting is the fact that A QUICK ONE includes, in addition to several Townshend masterpieces, one Roger Daltrey tuneand two excellent songs each from both John Entwistle and Keith Moon. The Entwistle-penned tracks ("Whiskey Man" and "Boris the Spider") are among his best and introduced fans forthe first time to the virtuoso bassist's dark, twisted sense of humor. Although prior to A QUICK ONE's release The Who had several hit singles, it was this album that put the music world on notice that Townshend and crew were far more thansimply a high energy rock & roll band.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Forgotten and underrated, 15 Mar 2004
By robojam - See all my reviews
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It's a shame that when a band produces a number of great albums that some of their lesser known albums fall by the wayside. This is certainly one of those. It's not that this is their best (but by no means their worst), but it deserves more exposure than it gets.

John Entwistle's greatest song is here for a start, the arachnophobic 'Boris the Spider'. He was apparently stuck for material to write about, and noticed a spider...the rest is history! There is also the best song that Keith Moon's name was put to - the insanely twisted 'Cobwebs and Strange' that could only have come from the head of someone like Keith Moon. It feels like Pete Townsend took a backseat in the songwriting department here, as there's also a rare contribution from Roger Daltrey, and the bonus tracks are covers versions that appeared on the b-sides of singles.

Pete Townsend's outstanding contribution here though is 'A Quick One While He's Away'. It's the first of his 'rock operas', but it stands in the shadows of the overrated 'Tommy' and the excellent 'Quadrophenia'.

This album sits well alongside the classics 'The Who Sell Out', 'Tommy', 'Live at Leeds', 'Who's Next' and 'Quadrophenia', and is certainly better than any of the albums not mentioned above.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars The best version I've heard!, 10 Dec 1999
By C. B. Softley "Badger" (Wolverhampton, Staffordshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Quick One (Happy Jack) (Audio CD)
OK, every serious 'The Who' fan knows that the re-mastered version of this album isn't really that much cop. So much so, that the casual fan could very easily over look this classic. A classic it is however! These limited edition imports of The Who collection are not easy to come by, by if you are able to obtain copies then you must see it on a par with witnessing the second coming. This is the best version of this album that I've ever heard. (And that includes the original vinyl version.) I've no idea what they've done to it, and technical mumbo jumbo is really not my thing, but it sounds so much better than the normal re-master that the high price tag is forgivable. From the opening track to Boris the Spider and all the way through to the title track it's a joy, but then again you could even say that about the 'other' version! I'm very pleased, any 'The Who' fan should be pleased, and the casual fan? Well if you've gotten this far then why stop? Get them all!!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars An all-time great, 24 Feb 2006
By The BlackFerret "Steve The BlackFerret" (Plymouth UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Quick One (Happy Jack) (Audio CD)
Skip the remastered versions, or anything with extra tracks.

This just don't need them! The original 10 tracks from 1966 may only last about 33 mins, but, in the course of changing from track 1 to 2, The Who stopped being just another R & B mod cover band, and became Pop Art.

Of course this is slung together and very self-indulgent in spots-who cares? The fun of red-hot pop music, innovation, four young kids discovering themselves and a new sound over the course of half-an-hour or so is still as infective as it has been these last 39 years.

One you MUST not miss!!

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