ADMIRAL 10

Artist: ADMIRAL 10  

Title: Too Good To Last

Format: Vinyl LP

Year: 1985

Songs: 9

Label: Dolce Records

Style: AOR

Admiral 10 was an obscure local rock band based out of Vestal, NY.  The band played a hybrid AOR/new wave sound with saxophone and even trumpet work.  They actually pull it all together and craft some intriguing tracks. The pop rocker opener ‘Shadow Of A Doubt’ has a crafty chorus melody.  ‘Start Again’ opens with catchy keyboard work and then works in sax and a solid guitar riff.  ‘Seeing Is Believing’ is an album standout with lots of solid AOR formula sounds.  Side B’s opener ‘Going To The Movies’ changes things up with its gimmicky/quirky lyrics and that continues with new wave Timbuk 3 sound alike ‘What Did I See In Her’.   Album closer is a hybrid of new wave, Westcoast AOR and jazz – and it works!