Tom Towers wrote some more things about music and poetry. You might be thinking he did not, but what are lyrics if not poetry? Don’t believe me? Take it up with the Nobel Committee!
Whack World has 5 million views on YouTube. The biggest Residents videos can barely manage a million. Yet The Residents, to celebrate their 40th anniversary, were able to sell (or at least offer for sale) 10 fridges filled with first editions of their CDs, records, DVDs and games (as in, computer games), for $100,000 each. So what is internet fame really worth? What is fame really worth, considering that people still pretend not to know who The Residents are/were to this day!
You can enjoy a version of the album cover below where the genitalia has not been airbrushed out here. Incidentally, that’s also where you can read what was referred to above.
The Beatles could not have been The Residents; but it’s conceivable that The Residents could have been The Beatles.