Just Keep Runnin'

Infobox Album |
Name = Just Keep Runnin'
Type = Album
Artist = Agent 51


Released = 2000 (re-released 2001)
Recorded = May-September 2000
Genre = Punk rock
Length = original: ~50:47 re-release: ~56:34
Label = original: Suburban Hooligans Records re-release: Adeline Records
Producer = Agent 51
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:4ad1vwrla9uk link] |
Last album = "Red Alert" (1998)
This album = "Just Keep Runnin"' (2000)
Next album = "The Red & the Black" (2003)

"Just Keep Runnin"' is a punk rock album by the Poway, California band Agent 51. It was first released in 2000 on the band's own Suburban Hooligans Records label, then was re-released in 2001 by Adeline Records with additional tracks. It was the band's second album and expanded their punk rock sound to include influences of classic rock and Heavy Metal. It also greatly expanded the band's secret agent mythos, 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 satellites 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."

Track listing

All songs written by Agent 51
#"If it's Blood You Want..."
#"Straight Outta Hell"
#"C.I.A.F.B.I."
#"Screamin' for Justice"
#"Had Enough"
#"Let it Roll"
#"Lock n' Load"
#"Midland Road"
#"The Chosen Ones"
#"Detonated"
#"Stray Bullets"
#"The Blacklist"
#"Psychic Spies"
#"The Last Pirate Standing" (listed as "The Last Pirate Song" on re-release)
#"Street Lockdown"
#"Free-Wheel"
#"Who's Gunna Riot?"
#"I Believe"
#"Programmed"*
#"Date With the Dead"*

*tracks 19 & 20 were included on the Adeline Records re-release version only and were recorded with new bassist Sean Scura, who joined the band in 2000 after the original release

Performers

*Chris Armes - guitar, vocals
*Eric "E-Rock" Davis - guitar, vocals
*Greg Schneider - bass, vocals (tracks 1-18)
*Michael "Mikey L" Levinson - drums
*Sean Scura - bass, vocals (tracks 19 & 20)
*Shawn Stern - backing vocals on "Straight Outta Hell"

Album Information

*Record label:
**original release: Suburban Hooligans Records
**re-release: Adeline Records
*Recorded and mixed at Exum Studios in Escondido, California May through September 2000
*Mastered by Dan de las Isla at DLI Productions
*Art design and illustration by Chris Armes and Greg Hewitt
*Story and layout by Greg Schneider
*Shawn Stern appears courtesy of BYO Records