Going faster miles an hour: putting songs about driving in reverse
Is there anything cornier in music than "best songs about driving"? Probably not. Go online and there are dozens of lists of these car-friendly compositions (the Travelling Wilburys, Sammy Hagar and Snow Patrol, anyone?). I presume these "theme" songs are considered especially appropriate for in-car listening. So you can groove to a song about driving while driving. By rights there ought to be a category of songs about listening to songs about driving while driving (probably there is), but Jonathan Richman's Roadrunner comes quite close. "I got the AM (radio on) / Got the car, got the AM (radio on)". Yeah, he's listening to the "modern sounds" of the radio while driving around at night in Massachusetts. Sound and vision (and speed). Driving songs might be corny but Roadrunner's the proto-punk classic it's still (fairly) cool to like. In fact the other day I saw this copy in a Shepherd's Bush charity shop for the not-exactly-...
