Rate Your Music score: 1.84 out of 5!
Remember this feel-good jam by the man from Pascagoula, Mississippi?
I'm shocked that this record has such a low Rate Your Music score. Power 94½ would have begged to differ with Rate Your Music, as this record seemed to be the glue that held the station together for months on end. This song always provided a much-needed break from the 5 hours of homework I got each night as a high school sophomore.
It even has a feel-good video. Judson throws off his hat - which resembles that worn by Al Lewis of The Uncle Al Show - and dances all over the stage like a madman!
In some ways, however, Judson mania didn't really age well. A website called Pop Dose has an article on Judson's self-titled LP. The piece calls Judson "Robbie Nevil's undescended testicle." The article pokes fun at the tame lyrics of the album's songs. Judson sounds like a guy who enrolls in college and is shocked that there are bars within 10 miles of campus. However, someone replied to that article saying Judson "is a major talent" who later beat alcoholism.
I'm not sure if Judson had any involvement with "Up All Night" by Annica, which happens to bear more than a passing resemblance to "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah." I'm not sure if anyone even noticed, as I don't think Annica's track ever got much radio play. It may have been one of these tracks that you mostly heard on websites that specialized in indie albums - back before Mitch McConnell led a boycott that put these sites out of business because they were based in countries where the government wouldn't support the Iraq War. A senator from my state put indie musicians out of work. Happy now, Mitch?
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