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Track Listings
| 1. You |
| 2. The Answer's At The End |
| 3. This Guitar (Can't Keep From Crying) |
| 4. Ooh Baby (You Know That I Love You) |
| 5. World Of Stone |
| 6. A Bit More Of You |
| 7. Can't Stop Thinking About You |
| 8. Tired Of Midnight Blue |
| 9. Grey Cloudy Lies |
| 10. His Name Is Legs (Ladies And Gentleman) |
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
"Extra Texture" has its moments but never quite manages to match Harrisons best solo work("All Things Must Pass", "Living In The Material World").
The opening track "You" is a fantasic pop song providing a great start to the album. There are other highligths too such as "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"clone "This Guitar cant keep me fom crying" and "The Answers At The End". "Cant Stop Thinking About You"is also a fantastic melodic track. As for the remaining songs theres nothing to really excite. Track 6-"A Bit More Of You"- may raise a smile however as that is literally what it is-a bit more of "You".
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
In the wake of the Scorcese film on George, my interest in Extra Texture was rekindled. I'd owned it on vinyl, and decided to get it on CD. The album still has not been remastered, and it could benefit from a bit of work. That said, I have been amazed at coming back to these songs some twenty five years on from first knowing them. Maybe it is me that's changed, and in my middle age I can discern things that in my mid twenties I didn't resonate with so much.
Like several reviewers here, Extra Texture has become synonomous with George's most depressing period (marriage break up, hepatitis, fallout from 'disastrous' US Tour...) played out on an album. I am finding this NOT to be the case now. Yes, the material does reflect lyrically and musically on occasions this downbeat frame of exhaustion - Grey Cloudy Lies most overtly. Yet there's not a stuckness in the depression, more of a decision and resolve to move on to somewhere better. Tired of Midnight Blue is really positive - it seems to describe George's realisation that Olivia's and his love for each other is the way out of the world of late night drinking and depression. 'Made me wish that I'd stayed home, with you' is pretty much the compass point that would turn George's life around back towards domestic bliss and soon to follow fatherhood.
However, what has really struck me on rediscovering Extra Texture has been the soulfulness of George's vocals, the care that has been lavished on the arrangements, and of course the top quality musicianship on show here. The strings, prominant bass and sometimes a little too distant vocals would all benefit from the remastering process. But the present production doesn't place ET at a severe disadvantage to the modern ear.
I am finding there to be more life and oodles more passion on these tracks than I had previously been aware of. It's a little more slow burning, but passion and conviction nevertheless. I can hear the album more in it's chronology now too, and several tracks could also have been placed on 33 and a Third - there's the soulfulness of Ooh Baby, which is a very close relation to Pure Smokey - and the band is probably pretty much the same. I'd have liked to have known what western music George was checking out in '74-'75. Surely he can't have just been listening to Krishna chants! The Fabs never hid their love of rhythm and blues, and my ears hear more than a little black soul, deep south gospel and even funk influences going on here.
I wouldn't suggest this should be the first port of call for someone just getting aquainted with solo George, but I'd certainly say it's definitely more worthy of investigation than some would tell you, and you may even find it becomes one of your unexpected faves!
Like several reviewers here, Extra Texture has become synonomous with George's most depressing period (marriage break up, hepatitis, fallout from 'disastrous' US Tour...) played out on an album. I am finding this NOT to be the case now. Yes, the material does reflect lyrically and musically on occasions this downbeat frame of exhaustion - Grey Cloudy Lies most overtly. Yet there's not a stuckness in the depression, more of a decision and resolve to move on to somewhere better. Tired of Midnight Blue is really positive - it seems to describe George's realisation that Olivia's and his love for each other is the way out of the world of late night drinking and depression. 'Made me wish that I'd stayed home, with you' is pretty much the compass point that would turn George's life around back towards domestic bliss and soon to follow fatherhood.
However, what has really struck me on rediscovering Extra Texture has been the soulfulness of George's vocals, the care that has been lavished on the arrangements, and of course the top quality musicianship on show here. The strings, prominant bass and sometimes a little too distant vocals would all benefit from the remastering process. But the present production doesn't place ET at a severe disadvantage to the modern ear.
I am finding there to be more life and oodles more passion on these tracks than I had previously been aware of. It's a little more slow burning, but passion and conviction nevertheless. I can hear the album more in it's chronology now too, and several tracks could also have been placed on 33 and a Third - there's the soulfulness of Ooh Baby, which is a very close relation to Pure Smokey - and the band is probably pretty much the same. I'd have liked to have known what western music George was checking out in '74-'75. Surely he can't have just been listening to Krishna chants! The Fabs never hid their love of rhythm and blues, and my ears hear more than a little black soul, deep south gospel and even funk influences going on here.
I wouldn't suggest this should be the first port of call for someone just getting aquainted with solo George, but I'd certainly say it's definitely more worthy of investigation than some would tell you, and you may even find it becomes one of your unexpected faves!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Good Lord, what a surprise. Listening to this now, it's difficult to fathom the vitriol (at worst) or the general dismissiveness (at best) that Extra Texture attracted when it first came out. It's no 'All Things Must Pass' or 'Thirty-Three and a Third', but it can in no way be described as George's, or any artist's, nadir. Some of the songs and arrangements on here, and the production overall, is brilliant: listen to the piano, bass and orchestra arrangement on 'The Answer's at the End', or 'This Guitar can't keep from Crying'. And what confidence in his singing, and in his artistry in general. Yes, maybe he'd been 'hanging out' a little too much in LA, but it's great to hear the influence seeping through from all the artists he was producing at the time. And it's almost a shock to hear his voice in such fine fettle after the struggled, strangled 'downer' (in my opinion) that was Dark Horse.
As a comparison between this and the previous album, 'I just can't help thinking....' that, yes, he might have been a bit down on Extra Texture, but what is wrong with that? So often sadness is a key to unlock one's artistry, and in any case it sounds as though so many of the songs are a conversation with himself and not necessarily with the world at large; the whole thing emerges as more hopeful, and less of a tortured struggle, than its predecessor. It's George's soul album, as another Amazon reviewer has very wisely pointed out. It's sad in parts, but it doesn't suck the air/energy out of the room as, I think, Dark Horse does. And it's no way cloyingly-preachy, in the sense that Living in the Material World can be.
If there's a problem here, it's that some of the songs just aren't that interesting (Ooh Baby, World of Stone, Can't Help Thinking about You, for example), though again in comparison with it's predecessor I think it scores a higher hit rate (I can only listen to the title song, So Sad and Ding Dong on DH). And yes, I'll admit it: I think His Name is Legs is a great tune! Listen to those horns! Just don't listen too closely to the words.....
As a comparison between this and the previous album, 'I just can't help thinking....' that, yes, he might have been a bit down on Extra Texture, but what is wrong with that? So often sadness is a key to unlock one's artistry, and in any case it sounds as though so many of the songs are a conversation with himself and not necessarily with the world at large; the whole thing emerges as more hopeful, and less of a tortured struggle, than its predecessor. It's George's soul album, as another Amazon reviewer has very wisely pointed out. It's sad in parts, but it doesn't suck the air/energy out of the room as, I think, Dark Horse does. And it's no way cloyingly-preachy, in the sense that Living in the Material World can be.
If there's a problem here, it's that some of the songs just aren't that interesting (Ooh Baby, World of Stone, Can't Help Thinking about You, for example), though again in comparison with it's predecessor I think it scores a higher hit rate (I can only listen to the title song, So Sad and Ding Dong on DH). And yes, I'll admit it: I think His Name is Legs is a great tune! Listen to those horns! Just don't listen too closely to the words.....
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a solow part of a great career
This Album basically is well below standard considering the musicians appearing here-a rubbish title-songs with no substance-Thank goodness none of the tracks were ever performed... Read more
Published 10 months ago by R. M. Baker
So fantastic
The arrangements on the tracks are so fantastic. That means: the strings (which sometimes are an ARP Omni) or real strings. The bass. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Peter Thomsen
Worthy Of Reissue
Perhaps a shade off his best, Extra Texture is nevertheless a well-crafted George Harrison album. Certainly the first three songs, "You," "The Answer's At The End" and "This... Read more
Published on 6 Nov 2007 by Daniel W. Sawyer
For George fans it is unmissable. For others its at least worth a...
Some of the criticism levelled at this album is, I cant help feeling, a bit of a knee-jerk reaction to a hasty listening
To claim this as the career low point is hardly... Read more
To claim this as the career low point is hardly... Read more
Published on 3 Jan 2007 by M. Penn
Extra Texture (Read All About It)
This really is the most under-rated album by a solo Beatle
This is one of my favourite George albums as well as being in my top 10 all-time solo Beatle albums, I dont understand... Read more
Published on 7 Feb 2006 by Mr. Mw Elphick
Depressing
OK this is where it gets more difficult. They never set exams like this at school. Like asking a Beatles fan to defend a frankly mediocre George Harrison record. Blimey. Read more
Published on 21 Feb 2005 by John Heaton
Extra Texture to make up for the sound
Musicians careers go up and down, and this is certainly the low point of George Harrisons. Every single song (wht the exception of Tired of Midnight Blue) has the same dull heavy... Read more
Published on 11 Aug 2004 by Mr Hector B Roddan
Not really worthwhile
I'm not sure why this Album fairs better than Dark Horse in these reviews. Both have things to reccommend them. Read more
Published on 2 Mar 2004 by Mr. J. A. Smith
Essentially an album of love songs...
With the exception of His Name Is Legs (Ladies And Gentlemen) this album excels with music and lyric that can only be compared with the standard of George's 'Something'. Read more
Published on 27 Dec 2000 by "superpolo"
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