High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Roadrunner" is a song written by Jonathan Richman and recorded in various versions by Richman and his band, in most cases credited as The Modern Lovers. Critic Greil Marcus described it as "the most obvious song in the world, and the strangest". Rolling Stone ranked it #269 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. As a teenager Richman saw the The Velvet Underground perform many times, and the format of “Roadrunner” is derived directly from the Velvets' song “Sister Ray”. “Roadrunner” mainly uses two chords (D and A, and only two bars of E) rather than “Sister Ray”'s three, but they share the same persistent throbbing rhythm, and lyrics which in performance were largely improvised around a central theme. However, in contrast to Lou Reed's morally detached saga of debauchery and decay, Richman's lyrics are passionate and candid, dealing with the freedom of driving alone and the beauty of the modern urban environment, specifically the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts.

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