 Discussing the album 's reception in his 1977 book The Beatles Forever , Nicholas Schaffner wrote : " Harrison 's worldly critics , who had long found his sermons insufferable , responded like bulls to a red flag to Extra Texture , which contains a number of treatises on how reviewers always ' miss the point . ' " Even Harrison 's loyal " disciples " , Schaffner continued , tended to view the album as " plodding and aimless " . Rolling Stone 's reviewer , Dave Marsh , highlighted " You " as a return to All Things Must Pass @-@ style grandeur , and " Can 't Stop Thinking About You " and " Tired of Midnight Blue " as " the most effective nine minutes of music " the artist had made since 1970 . Generally , on an album that was " sketchy at best " , however , Marsh bemoaned the over @-@ reliance on " merely competent " keyboards and Harrison 's " affectingly feeble voice " , before concluding : " Harrison is no longer a Beatle , as he has reminded us more than we have asked . But if he learned nothing else from his experience in that organization , it ought to have been that a good guitar player isn 't worth much without a band . " 
