Best Band To Happen To Music EVER

Which band do you think deserves this award?

I'd say mine goes on 2 close-calls and one definite.

Close call 1: Led Zeppelin (Talented hacks)
Close call 2: Rolling Stones(Do I even need to explain?)
DEFINITE BEST: Velvet Underground. These Welsh-posers even tried to not just to entertain, but to challenge, to prove that rock ‘n’ roll could be dangerous again. I wish I had gone to high school with these dudes so I could've let them fuck the shit out of me.

Led Zeppelin really didn't introduce anything new to the world. All they did was take the blues and make it more mainstream.

The Stones were just a carbon copy of the Beatles sound to begin with, only after Beggar's Banquet did they become what most people recognise them as.

And Velvet Underground just plain suck.

I would say The Ramones, but they owe a lot to numerous bands before them.

Which kind of illustrates an important point about music: It's easy to point out what bands stifle innovation, but a lot harder to say which bands are important, as they usually take a lot of influence/inspiration from bands that came before.