Favorite band or artist of all time?

Classical-->Bach and Beethoven
Jazz--> Art Pepper and John Coltrane
Rock--> Stones (debut through Exile), Bob Dylan (through Mercy)Blues--> Muddy Waters and Robert Pete Williams

Kings X

THE subject at hand was not to tear down musicians and composers but to pay a (little) homage to an art form that touches your soul. I can mention names (even though my memory is not the greatest) of deserving people who have populated a planet with an abundance of mediocrity (I include myself). But I don't get the point in being cynical.  Beethoven even wrote a few pieces even he would have admitted weren't that great. Bach wrote some easier pieces for his wife so she could practice.
Someone wrote "Jingle Bells" which does not put me in the holiday mood yet I hear jazz renditions of it anyway. I would hope that we might all agree that some music makes some of us Really Truly Happy. 

Happy ? Sally Carr certainly made one boy very happy back in the day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPPx55UxCUA


Happy New Year

@alucard19 
Golden Earring is ÀWESOME!
Been around longer than The Stones!
without checking, I believe still original  members. Huge body of work and every album is different from the previous. 
Great Live band! Saw them from second row opening for Robin Trower back in '76😎