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The Who: A Quick One

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Label: Polydor Records
Released: 1966
Time:
 56:25
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Shel Talmy
Rating: ********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.thewho.com
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Purchase date: 2010.05.16
Price in €: 2,00





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[1] Run Run Run (Townshend) - 2:41
[2] Boris the Spider (Entwistle) - 2:26
[3] I Need You (Moon) - 2:20
[4] Whiskey Man (Entwistle) - 2:56
[5] Heat Wave (Dozier/Holland/Holland) - 1:54
[6] Cobwebs and Strange (Moon) - 2:29
[7] Don't Look Away (Townshend) - 2:51
[8] See My Way (Daltrey) - 1:51
[9] So Sad About Us (Townshend) - 2:57
[10] A Quick One While He's Away (Townshend) - 9:05
[11] Batman - 1:37
[12] Bucket "T" - 2:12
[13] Barbara Ann - 1:59
[14] Disguises - 3:11
[15] Doctor Doctor - 2:59
[16] I've Been Away - 2:08
[17] In the City - 2:21
[18] Happy Jack (Townshend) - 2:55 *
[19] Man with Money - 2:45 *
[20] My Generation/Land of Hope and Glory - 2:04 *

* - previously unreleased.


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Roger Daltrey - Harmonica, Vocals
Pete Townshend - Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals
Keith Moon - Drums, Vocals
John Entwistle - Bass, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals

Jon Astley - Producer, Remixing, Remastering
Kit Lambert - Producer
Chris Charlesworth - Executive Producer
Bill Curbishley - Executive Producer
Andy MacPherson - Remixing, Remastering
Robert Rosenberg - Executive Producer
Alan Aldridge - Design
Richard Evans - Art Direction
Chris Stamp - Liner Notes

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1988 CD MCA Records 31331
1993 CD Polydor 8357282
1999 CD Polydor POCP9194
2002 CD 3D UICY-2310
2003 CD Polydor 5898002
2003 LP Phantom Records (England) 8357281

Reissue of the British rock icon's sophomore album, originally issued in 1966. 20 tracks available for the first in digitally remastered stereo. Polydor.

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.



The Who's second album is a mite inconsistent, not least because all four members were encouraged by a business deal to churn out songs. A Quick One nonetheless manages several Who classics, notably "A Quick One While He's Away," Pete Townshend's first longform (10 minutes) piece, and John Entwistle's licensed-to-ill "Whiskey Man" and "Boris the Spider." The band's sense of humor, however, gives way on rote pop tunes like Roger Daltrey's "See My Way." But CD bonus tracks like the great "Disguises" (included in a murkier mix than that on the 30 Years of Maximum R&B boxed set) and the Beach Boys tributes "Bucket T" and "Barbara Ann" are a distinct help.

Rickey Wright - Amazon.com



So und nicht anders muss eine wirklich wertige CD-Neuauflage aussehen! Das zweite The Who-Album A Quick One ('66) wurde nicht nur remastert und mit reichlich Liner-Notes, Fotos und Presseschnipseln ausgestattet, sondern auch noch mit zehn (!) Bonustracks bestückt. Neben vier Songs von der '66er EP Ready Steady Who (darunter die Covernummern "Batman" und "Barbara Ann") gibt´s noch drei Single-B-Seiten aus den Jahren '66 und '67, eine Akustikversion von "Happy Jack", das Everly Brothers-Cover "Man With The Moon" und eine Liveaufnahme von "My Generation". Die zehn regulären LP-Tracks sprühen nur so vor Experimentierfreude und wunderbaren Melodien. Genau wie die Beatles auf ihrem im selben Jahr erschienenen Meilenstein Revolver erkunden auch The Who das weite, noch unbestellte Feld der tabulosen Rock/Pop-Musik. Da stehen lupenreine Hits wie "Run Run Run" neben leicht morbiden Gruselsongs à la "Boris The Spider" und total freakigem Lärm wie dem Keith Moon-Song "Cobwebs And Strange". Den Vogel schießt jedoch Bandchef/Gitarrist Pete Townshend ab, dessen neunminütige Mini-Rockoper "A Quick One While He's Away" das zusammen mit dem Beach Boys-Album Pet Sounds ('66) erste Konzeptwerk der Musikgeschichte sein dürfte und bereits einen kleinen Vorgeschmack auf die '69er Rockoper Tommy gibt.

Michael Rensen - Amazon.de



The Who's second album is a less impressive outing than their debut, primarily because, at the urging of their managers, all four members penned original material (though Pete Townshend wrote more than anyone else). The pure adrenaline of My Generation also subsided somewhat as the band began to grapple with more complex melodic and lyrical themes, especially on the erratic mini-opera "A Quick One While He's Away." Still, there's some great madness on Keith Moon's instrumental "Cobwebs and Strange," and 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 (and a morbid bent) on "Whiskey Man" and "Boris the Spider." [The CD reissue adds bonus tracks: some 1966-1967 B-sides, their U.K.-only 1966 Ready Steady Who EP, an acoustic version of "Happy Jack," and a previously unreleased cover of the Everly Brothers' "Man with Money."]

Richie Unterberger - All Music Guide
 

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