''Just Keep Runnin''' is a punk rock album by the

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band

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. It was first released in 2000 on the band's own Suburban Hooligans Records label, then was re-released in 2001 by

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with additional tracks. It was the band's second album and expanded their punk rock sound to include influences of

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and heavy metal. It also greatly expanded the band's secret agent

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, with the liner notes extensively detailing the comic book-style secret origins of the band and its members. According to the story, the band members were ''rogue secret agents with psychic, cybernetic and alien-enhanced abilities'' who were struggling against a secret government organization known as "The Agency." The Agency sought to use

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to control the minds of Earth's population, and Agent 51's mission was to expose the Agency's secrets to the general public disguised as an ordinary rock band. The songs "C.I.A.F.B.I." and "Psychic Spies" dealt directly with this theme. The songs "The Last Pirate Standing", "Free-Wheel" and "Who's Gunna Riot?" had been part of the band's live set for several years under the titles "The Pirate Song", "Free-Wheel Burning" and "Riot."

Reception

Stewart Mason of

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gave ''Just Keep Runnin three stars out of five, calling it "basically insubstantial, but a lot of fun" and saying that the band has "a

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-like tongue-in-cheek quality".

Track listing

Personnel

Band

*Chris Armes –

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, vocals, art design and illustration *Eric "E-Rock" Davis – guitar, vocals *Greg Schneider –

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, vocals (tracks 1–18); story and layout *Michael "Mikey L" Levinson –

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*Sean Scura – bass guitar, vocals (tracks 19 and 20)

Additional musicians

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- backing vocals on "Straight Outta Hell" (original release only)

Production

*Dan de las Isla – mastering *Chris Armes and Greg Hewitt – art design and illustration

References

{{Authority control 2000 albums 2001 albums Agent 51 albums Adeline Records albums