A Quick One
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A Quick One
A Quick One is the second studio album by the English rock band The Who, released on 9 December 1966. The album was also released under the title Happy Jack on Decca Records in April 1967 in the United States, where the song "Happy Jack" was a top 40 hit. -Wikipedia
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BBC
2002 Above all, this is a fascinating glimpse into a time when pop bands were given free reign to try virtually anything. It's fascinating to hear Townshend setting out on the path that would eventually lead to Tommy and Quadrophenia.
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Classic Rock Review
2011 All would be more popular and more highly regarded than A Quick One, but this 1966 effort was the catalyst which made those possible.
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Pop Dose
One of the greatest moments in Who history is also one of their most enduringly clever, subtly obscene (for the time), obviously risque and imminently unforgettable.
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Sputnik Music
2015 Truly bizarre and inconsistent foray into more cheery and poppy territory. Here, we get everything ranging from blues rock, quirky comedic tunes, the band's first "rock-opera" track," folk rock sections, and more.
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Sputnik Music
2009 A Quick One is like one of those water spraying fans you find at a flea market; it is entertaining, but when you take a close look, there's really not that much to it.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
A Quick One is the Who's most delightfully unfocused album, a weaving roll through the band's most democratic period.
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Warr
It's just too sloppy and tongue-in-cheek to be listenable, with a silly, heavy-handed sailor-comes-home plot that recaps folk songs like "John Riley."
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Musicko
the preponderance of tunes that do not live up to the standards of the pop heroes that were shortly to become rock titans.
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All Music
Townshend delivered some solid mod pop with "Run Run Run" and "So Sad About Us." John Entwistle was also revealed to be a writer of considerable talent
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Rolling Stone
1995 There is a rare genuineness to the upbeat pop of 1966’s A Quick One .
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