50+ Music<p>"Roadrunner" is a song written by <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/JonathanRichman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JonathanRichman</span></a> and recorded in various versions by Richman and his band, in most cases credited as <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/theModernLovers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theModernLovers</span></a>. Richman has described it as an ode to <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MassachusettsRoute128" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MassachusettsRoute128</span></a>. Critic <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GreilMarcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreilMarcus</span></a> described it as "the most obvious song in the world, and the strangest". <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RollingStone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RollingStone</span></a> ranked it No. 269 on their list of the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/500GreatestSongsOfAllTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>500GreatestSongsOfAllTime</span></a> in 2004 and No. 77 in 2021. It charted at no.11 on the UK chart in 1977. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGsf8NUbeJw" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=YGsf8NUbeJw</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>