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.
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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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