The album was retitled Happy Jack because the "Happy Jack" single had been a minor hit for The Who there and partly because Decca, their record company, objected to the double entendre in the original title. the release was held back until May 1967. In 2003, the album was ranked number 383 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.Ī Quick One was originally released as Reaction 593 002 on December 3rd, 1966. A track listing, a couple of paragraphs touting the band, an ad for their first album, and a technical blurb are also crowded onto the back cover. The back cover is a black-and-white photo montage of the band members accompanied by a short personality sketch of each (infamous among Who fans for Keith Moon's humorous assertion that he was keen on "breeding chickens"). The cover was designed by the pop art exponent Alan Aldridge, with the front cover depicting the band playing their instruments. The album was intended to be pop music, a sonic participant in the pop art movement. The album was recorded at IBC Studios, Pye Studios and Regent Sound, in London, England in 1966. John Entwistle was also revealed to be a writer of considerable talent (and a morbid bent) on "Whiskey Man" and "Boris the Spider".
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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". 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". 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).
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The Who would later go on to write and record the full scale rock operas Tommy and Quadrophenia. The album was also the band's first foray into the form of rock opera, with "A Quick One, While He's Away", the title track of the LP, a nine-minute suite of song snippets telling a story of infidelity and reconciliation. 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 (although Roger Daltrey only wrote one), so this Who album is the least dominated by Pete Townshend's writing. This is widely regarded by fans to have been a pivotal album for the group, due to the departure from the R&B / pop formula featured on the band's first release. "Happy Jack" was not included on the UK version of the album, but instead was released as a non-album single.
American record company executives at Decca Records released the album under the title Happy Jack, rather than the sexually suggestive title of the UK release, and due to "Happy Jack" being a top forty hit in the U.S. At best, the Who's raw power and intelligence offered essential messages to any era.Ī Quick One is the second album by English rock band The Who, released in 1966. Their tough, early tracks are a key punk resource, so it hardly matters that they were forever doomed to third place behind the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in the British-pop sweepstakes. The Who weren't always a nostalgia act or merely makers of pleasant Broadway fodder.
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