Editing A Quick One (section)

==Critical reception==
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name=ritchie>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r21828/review|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev2Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|location=London|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[MusicHound|MusicHound Rock]]''
| rev3score = 3.5/5<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Graff|editor1-first=Gary|editor2-last=Durchholz|editor2-first=Daniel|title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide|publisher=Visible Ink Press|location=Farmington Hills, MI|year=1999|isbn=1-57859-061-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781578590612/page/1227 1227]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781578590612/page/1227}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
| rev4score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine|title=A Quick One|magazine=[[Q (magazine)|Q]]|location=London|page=140|issue=108|date=September 1995}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev5score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="Appleford"/>
| rev6 = [[Tom Hull (critic)|Tom Hull]]
| rev6score = B+ ({{Rating-Christgau|hm3}})<ref>{{cite web|last=Hull|first=Tom|author-link=Tom Hull (critic)|date=n.d.|url=http://www.tomhull.com/ocston/nm/rock-60s.html|title=Rock (1960s)|website=tomhull.com|access-date=13 July 2020}}</ref>
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The album's release prompted a full-page, track-by-track review by [[Chris Welch]] in ''[[Melody Maker]]'', where he enthused it was "incredible" and fulfilled the band's promise. He concluded "here is a collection of compositions and treatments that captures the Who essence, humour, cynicism, nervous drive, violence, and delicacy", and praised every track.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=The Who Fulfilled - And a Mini-Opera, Yet!|magazine=Melody Maker|date=December 10, 1966|page=11|accessdate=2025-05-07|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Melody-Maker/60s/66/Melody-Maker-1966-1210.pdf}}</ref> Retrospectively, ''[[Rolling Stone]]''{{'}}s Steve Appleford said in 1995 that the album's cheerful [[pop music|pop]] style has an authentic quality with trifles like "Cobwebs and Strange" that are reconciled by "absolutely perfect, poignant pop tune[s]" such as "So Sad About Us".<ref name="Appleford">{{cite magazine|last=Appleford|first=Steve|date=5 October 1995|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/a-quick-one-happy-jack-19951005|title=A Quick One (Happy Jack) Album Review|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|location=New York|access-date=9 October 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240907054020/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/a-quick-one-happy-jack-205771/|archive-date=7 September 2024}}</ref> The album was later described as "fascinatingly quirky" by the magazine.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-20120531/the-who-a-quick-one-happy-jack-20120525|title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time|date=31 May 2012|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=7 April 2018}}</ref> Ritchie Unterburger at [[AllMusic]] gave the album four-and-a-half stars, noting it was not as impressive as the debut but saw the band "grapple with more complex melodic and lyrical themes", finding praise for "Cobwebs and Strange", "So Sad About Us", and both Entwistle numbers.<ref name=ritchie/> In ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]'' (1981), [[Robert Christgau]] included the album's American version in his "basic record library".<ref name="CG">{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=[[Ticknor & Fields]]|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: W|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=W&bk=70|access-date=9 March 2019|via=robertchristgau.com|title-link=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies}}</ref> ''Rolling Stone'' ranked the album number 383 on its list of [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|the 500 greatest albums of all time]], published in 2003,<ref>{{cite magazine|title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-20120531/the-who-a-quick-one-happy-jack-20120525|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=31 May 2012|access-date=25 November 2016}}</ref> and 384 in 2012.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/the-who-a-quick-one-happy-jack-64671/| year=2012| title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone's definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time| publisher=[[Rolling Stone]]| access-date= 5 September 2019}}</ref>
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