Label: Polydor Records (Japan), POCP-2331
Style: Mod, Beat, Psychedelic Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 32:43
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 213 Mb
Charts: UK #4, AUS #163, CAN #13, NOR #19, US #67.
A Quick One is the second studio album by the English rock band the Who, released on 9 December 1966. In the United States, where the song "Happy Jack" was a top 40 hit, the album was released in April 1967 under the title Happy Jack with a slightly altered track listing.
Unlike other albums by the Who, where guitarist Pete Townshend was the primary or sole songwriter, A Quick One features significant songwriting contributions from all band members, with lead vocalist Roger Daltrey contributing one song, and bassist John Entwistle and drummer Keith Moon each contributing two. The album also included a cover of the Holland-Dozier-Holland song "Heat Wave" and ends with a musical suite titled "A Quick One, While He's Away", which served as an inspiration for later rock operas that the Who would become known for.
The Who's second studio album departs from the R&B emphasis of their debut. Part of the marketing push for the album was a requirement that each band member should write at least two of the songs on it, though Roger Daltrey only wrote one ("See My Way"), so this is the Who album least dominated by Pete Townshend's songwriting.
"Boris the Spider" was written after John Entwistle had been out drinking with the Rolling Stones' bassist Bill Wyman. They were making up funny names for animals when Entwistle came up with the song. "Boris the Spider" quickly became Entwistle's most popular song, still performed decades later: in later years he often wore a spider necklace, and would have a spider web design inlaid on the body of his custom-made Alembic bass guitar (the latter is pictured on the cover of Entwistle's 1981 solo studio album Too Late the Hero).
(full version: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Quick_One)
01. Run Run Run (02:37)
02. Boris The Spider (02:39)
03. I Need You (02:29)
04. Whiskey Man (03:03)
05. Heatwave (02:04)
06. Cobwebs And Strange (02:36)
07. Don't Look Away (02:54)
08. See My Way (01:58)
09. So Sad About Us (03:09)
10. A Quick One, While He's Away (09:09)
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