Reception
An upbeat Harrison song in the mould of "Here Comes the Sun", "What Is Life" and "You", "Don't Let Me Wait Too Long" has regularly been singled out as one of the highlights of Living in the Material World. In his album review for Rolling Stone in July 1973, Stephen Holden called the track "a gorgeous, rollicking love song". The month before, Billboard magazine had considered "Don't Let Me Wait Too Long" one of the album's "best cuts". The song's style and "fresh, contemporary quality" anticipated a number of radio-friendly ELO singles from around this time, particularly their 1976 hit "Livin' Thing".
More recently, authors Chip Madinger and Mark Easter have described it as "a marvelous track", while Allmusic's Bruce Eder praises its "delectable acoustic rhythm guitar" and "great beat". Harrison's musical biographer Simon Leng refers to "Don't Let Me Wait Too Long" as "a great pop song" and "one of George Harrison's most perfect pop confections", while praising its guitar fills and arrangement. To Elliot Huntley, the song is "a superlative slice of almost McCartney-esque pop", with Harrison's "exquisite slide guitar" a particular highlight.
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“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
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