I'm not sure how I want to organize this list, but my feeling is that more weight is given to those listed first--I'm pretty sure after adding several names that more criteria is going to be needed before any ranking can be relevant.

The List:

Poe (Poe at MySpace)

Bauhaus

David Bowie

Love and Rockets (and Tones On Tails)

The Beatles

The Doors

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult

The Beastie Boys

Garbage

The Clash

Adam and The Ants

The The

StereoLab

Add N to (X)

PJ Harvey

The Human League

Duran Duran

Bob Dylan

Perhaps I'll post my iTunes number played count, but this has it's own limitations.

Here is one of my audio poems (it's not a spoken word poem)-- Landing Spell (How Can You Tell)