123456! Roadrunner is all about the joy of driving around, cranking the radio, going past familiar places in Boston, Massachusetts, speeding down the highway, experiencing the freedom spirit of cars and rock n roll, loving the place and time, the moment. The music cruises along, organ and guitars, drum and bass, Jonathan Richman's nasally stuffed up vocals.
From the wikipedia article for Roadrunner:
Former bandmate John Felice recalled that as teenagers he and Richman "used to get in the car and just drive up and down Route 128 and the Turnpike. We'd come up over a hill and he’d see the radio towers, the beacons flashing, and he would get almost teary-eyed. He'd see all this beauty in things where other people just wouldn’t see it." Sweet.
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