| Just Keep Runnin' | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Agent 51 |
| Cover: | Agent 51 - Just Keep Runnin' cover.jpg |
| Released: | 2000 |
| Recorded: | May–September 2000 |
| Genre: | Punk rock |
| Label: | Suburban Hooligans, Adeline |
| Producer: | Agent 51 |
| Prev Title: | Red Alert |
| Prev Year: | 1998 |
| Next Title: | The Red & the Black |
| Next Year: | 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."
Stewart Mason of Allmusic 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 Dickies-like tongue-in-cheek quality".[1] [3]
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