GONNA DRIVE PAST THE STOP & SHOP WITH THE RADIO ON: There's a movement afoot to have Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers' "Roadrunner" declared the official state rock song of Massachusetts.
Laura Barton, for The Guardian (UK) in 2007: "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.'"
Still, there's a lot of contenders out there -- the Dropkick Murphys' "Shipping Up To Boston," The Pixies' "U-Mass," Juliana Hatfield's "Feeling Massachusetts," The Bee Gees' "Massachusetts" ...
