You/The Answer's At The End/This Guitar (Can't Keep From Crying)/Ooh Baby (You Know That I Love You)/ World Of Stone/A Bit More Of You/Can't Stop Thing About You/Tired Of Midnight Blue/Grey Cloudy Lies/His Name Is Legs (Ladies & Gentlemen)
Extra Texture proved to be another disappointing album from George Harrison. Most of the tracks are mediocre and there is nothing that is particularly memorable. (US:8 UK:16)
“Perhaps a bit too moribund at times for repeat playing, it's nevertheless one of those albums that sounds better than you remember it.”
“A mediocre cast of back-up musicians, coupled with songs that were flat-out boring, make this largely unlistenable. Except for opening track You, there's little else memorable from this. And to put things into proper perspective, You would have been nothing more than a B-side during Harrison's Beatles tenure.”
“Extra Texture is one of George Harrison's most underrated albums. It's certainly not his best work, but neither does it deserve the criticism it often receives. There are no really bad songs here, though overall the album is just a bit too mellow for my taste.”
“Like many others, I fantasise about what masterpieces might have been created by culling the dross from the post Beatles' solo albums of any given year and combining the great songs into a single album performed by all four of them.”
“The album is consistently mellow and ballad-oriented, which is probably why critics bashed it. Extra Texture lacks the energy of some of George's other work, but overall, the mellowness makes it a rather unique effort.”
“This album, although it contains some enjoyable moments, really isn't worthy of a very high grade. The songs mostly seem unrealized and tossed off. A couple tracks succeed, Ooh Baby is one such, a very slow tune with moody, atmospheric guitars and horns, and George's singing sounding genuinely sad.”
“George was obviously in a strange place when this album was written. There are a lot of sorrows, and a lot of plain giddiness. But it's not a total loss, and George's musical charms are definitely still here.”
“Though always worth hearing, he was not a consistent artist, mixing far more ordinary material among his rarer excellent songs.”
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