What are your 10 favorite bands?

[vi5]

66. I had a recent revelation with Rush

I always loved Rush. All their early stuff and all their keyboardy 80's stuff. But I was in a weird spot because I was a metalhead into all the heaviest stuff of the 80's but I was also a fan of new wave and alternative stuff around that same era. I never really made a connection and just firmly kept including Rush as one of my favorite rock/metal/whatever bands, even during the keyboard era. I always assumed their delving into keyboards were more of a Rick Wakeman/ELP prog rock type thing.

So when I finally watched that Beyond The Lighted Stage documentary I had an "Of course!" moment when I heard Neil say how influenced they were by New Wave bands and that was a lot of what drove their direction back then not only with the keyboards but with a lot of the more reggae lite beats and such.

In over 30 plus years of fandom I never thought of them as the connection between my metal and my new wave sides, but there it was laid bare. Interesting (well, to me anyway...probably nobody else).