 In the 1977 edition of their book The Beatles : An Illustrated Record , Roy Carr and Tony Tyler described Extra Texture as " another lugubrious offering " and concluded : " the needle of the listener 's personal <unk> points sullenly towards zero throughout . " Harrison 's pleas for tolerance and understanding , like his self @-@ deprecation on the album sleeve , seemed to backfire . Writing in 1981 , Bob Woffinden found that the album showed signs that Harrison was " no longer so scornful of his audience " compared with Dark Horse . Woffinden wrote of the songs that " plead plaintively with critics not to judge too severely " : " In this different context , such pleas are more sympathetic . Very well , then , we will not . Extra Texture wasn 't really very good musically … but it did have some appealing qualities , and barely any disagreeable ones . " 
