A Quick One
by The Who
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A Quick One is ranked 7th best out of 51 albums by The Who on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Who is Who's Next which is ranked number 40 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 20,300.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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A Quick One track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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A Quick One rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Repo | Top 47 Music Albums of 1966 | 8/47 | 4 |
| 2026 | lanadeleswift | Top 43 Music Albums of 1966 | 29/43 | 2 |
| 2026 |  JR | Top 17 Music Albums of 1966 | 7/17 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 100 Music Albums of 1966 | 28/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | Fritz | Top 15 Music Albums of 1966 | 14/15 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Dankel | Top 32 Music Albums of 1966 | 16/32 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Glitterboiii | Top 40 Music Albums of 1966 | 37/40 | 1 |
| 2026 | blueandthemoon | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s | 97/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Greatest Music Albums: 301-400 | 78/100 | - |
| 2026 |  Fischman | Top 100 Music Albums of 1966 | 33/100 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 266 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,036 | |||
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A Quick One ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/08/2026 01:51 | jlsfourth | 1,213 | 71/100 |
| ! | 07/31/2026 19:21 | Retsamr | 54 | 85/100 |
| ! | 07/20/2026 08:00 | dukeboxkool | 2,241 | 72/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.1/100, a mean average of 74.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.5.
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Repo 07/10/2025 22:27 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)A Quick One comments
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HoldenM 08/01/2025 15:00 | #310373
The Who stretch themselves as a band to comparably mixed results next to their scrappy and assured debut. They still write catchy, brash rock songs, while also attempting more sprawling ideas. It's a sophomore slump, but hardly a ruinous one. (Edited)
A Quick One While He's Away" was the Who's second album released in 1966. Compared to their first album it's very obvious that Pete Townshend and the band had matured during 1965-66. There is a wider variety in their song-writing, and technically the album are miles ahead of "My Generation".
All members wrote songs to the album, and though both John Enthwistle and Keith Moon contribute strong material like "Boris the Spider", "Whiskey Man" and "I Need You", Pete Townsend is clearly the prolific song-writer in the band.
Townshend's mini-opera "A Quick One While He's Away" may not be his most succesful piece of work, but it's quite entertaining and it gives a good hint of what was to come from his pen in near future.
Pete Best songs on the album must be "So Sad About Us" and "Don't Look Away". Even stronger is the psychedelic "Disguises", which oddly enough was not included on the British version of the album. Along with the single-version of "I'm a Boy" and "In the City", "Disguises was included on the European version, which was simple just called "The Who". "A Quick One While He's Away" was exchange with these great songs, and in my opinion this exchanged made the European album a much better buy. Unfortunately the single-version of "I'm a Boy" is not added here, which would have been a logical inclusion. Note that the version found on "Meaty Beaty . . " is an alternate, less powerful version.
"Man With Money", written by the Everly Brothers is a great addition; and the acoustic version of "Happy Jack" is quite charming.
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Jboy56 07/19/2022 18:58 | #287606
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VictorVale 10/09/2021 13:04 | #274802
Matem-sem divertidos e cada vez experimentando mais, incluindo umas distorções. Destaque para a bateria!
A real mish-mash. They clearly haven't found their sound yet. Some good stuff- Boris, So Sad About Us. But Cobwebs and Strange is awful even as a joke. Heat Wave is lame. Imagine what the early 70s version of the Who could've done with it. A quick one (the song) has it's moments but in the end it's uneven and slightly boring.
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