"Roadrunner is one of the most magical songs in existence. It is a song about what it means to be young, and behind the wheel of an automobile, with the radio on and the night and the highway stretched out before you. It is a paean to the modern world, to the urban landscape, to the Plymouth Roadrunner car, to roadside restaurants, neon lights, suburbia, the highway, the darkness, pine trees and supermarkets. As Greil Marcus put it in his book Lipstick Traces: "Roadrunner was the most obvious song in the world, and the strangest."
Laura Barton, "The car, the radio, the night - and rock's most thrilling song", The Guardian, 20 July 2007
Link to the full article: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/jul/20/popandrock5
