The reason Eno isn't on there is because I haven't given a good listen to a large portion of his work so I can't really say anything one way or another about him. But I've been meaning to listen to his stuff for a damn long time and once I do, he'll probably show up on here.
Thanks for the suggestion and glad you like the list!

The Voidoids also feature some of Robert Quine's finest guitarwork!

Hell and Jello Biafra were probably the smartest punk singers.

So complex rhyme schemes are the yardstick by which poetry must be judged? Shit, someone should have clued in Robert Frost.

In typical form, you're pretending to engage the topic, but it's clear it's just a pretext for your incoherent ramblings. He's clearly not judging the lyrics in comparison to Wordsworth, Whitman, Dickinson and Khayyam; the list is obviously derived from the medium of music. It's all about songwriting, as can be easily gleaned from the list title, I'm not sure how you missed that part.

I love how you have the nerve to accuse anyone of "objective posturing", you must be irony impaired.

I do agree that lyrics, even the greatest lyrics, have little meaning to me without the music and the particular way a singer sings the words. Lisa Germano could sing the alphabet and i would enjoy it; and, there is a difference between the Down Colorful Hill version of "Down Colorful Hill" and the live version on Little Drummer Boy. But, I can read lyrics that are "poetry", which is a term that I have yet to understand to have a definitive meaning (Gertrude Stein, Wordsworth's "Michael", etc.).

I think "Heroin" is just as good as any other poem written in that time, as well as all of the songs off of Songs of Leonard Cohen, and "Desolation Row" (among others by Dylan).

What is good poetry? When does good poetry become good? What is an example of bad poetry by a good poet?

I can only think of two artists right now who were published poets before they became "lyricists"--Leonard Cohen and Patti Smith--which songs that were later recorded came from their published poetry. Dylan has since been anthologized in poetry books, though that is largely due to his pop culture status, as is with most poets who get more coverage in those same anthologies. I think Beefheart has had poetry books released, if not there is one album of just his words, but it made up of previously recorded material.

I guess what I want to know is what I asked above, which is, when do a collection of words become poetry? Is it like a chair? That is, a chair only becomes a chair when you sit down on it, or is it anything that resembles other things that you have sat on before in shape and material?

I know there are famous definitions given by famous poets on what constitutes "poetry" versus prose, or just a random collection of words. I would like to know if you have an answer. I am not just poking the chimp in the cage waiting for the feces. I know that I used to think I could write poetry that was good and bad--those days are either gone or are buried--and be able to at least tell the difference between poetry I liked vs. poetry I did not like (essentially good vs. bad poetry). But, lately I have been reading my anthologies again, and some of the greats are boring, or I think have almost no value at all, and I am talking about poets like Yeats, Stein, Dickinson, and others that I used to think were not good but GREAT.

This is a shameless plug, but is this poetry? I will be putting up more stuff that I wrote before if i feel it is decent enough, or if I think it is as finished as I can make it. Some of the stuff will be more "conventional" and other stuff much more "experimental", though not new in poetic theory, that i know of. Also, some songs that I plan to get recorded at least as demos.