On Your Feet or on Your Knees

On Your Feet or on Your Knees
Live album by Blue Öyster Cult
Released	February 27, 1975
Recorded	April 27, 1974 October 5–21, 1974 Academy of Music, New York City Paramount Theatre, Portland, Oregon Paramount Theatre, Seattle, Washington Show Palace, Phoenix, Arizona Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, California P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, British Columbia Capitol Theatre, New Jersey
Genre	Hard rock, heavy metal
Length	78:13
Label	Columbia
Producer	Murray Krugman, Sandy Pearlman
Blue Öyster Cult chronology
Secret Treaties (1974) On Your Feet or on Your Knees (1975) Agents of Fortune (1976)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Robert Christgau	(C+)[2]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	8/10[3]
Rolling Stone	(mixed)[4]

On Your Feet or on Your Knees is the first live album by the American rock band Blue Öyster Cult released on February 27, 1975 by Columbia Records. Each of the band's first three studio albums is represented by three songs each, two other songs are covers ("I Ain't Got You", albeit with modified lyrics, and "Born to Be Wild"), and one ("Buck's Boogie") is an original instrumental that remains a staple of the band's live shows to this day. The 12 songs include performances at the Academy of Music in New York City, the Paramount Theatre in Portland, the Paramount Theatre in Seattle, the Show Palace in Phoenix, the Long Beach Arena, the P.N.E. Coliseum in Vancouver and the Capitol Theatre in New Jersey, though it is not clear which songs came from which venues and on what dates.

It hit No. 22 on the Billboard 200,^[5] thus making it the band's highest charting album in the U.S.^[6]

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Subhuman"	7:30
2.	"Harvester of Eyes"	4:55
3.	"Hot Rails to Hell"	5:55

Side two
No.	Title	Length
4.	"The Red and the Black"	4:33
5.	"Seven Screaming Diz-Busters"	8:27
6.	"Buck's Boogie"	7:40

Side three
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Last Days of May"	4:35
2.	"Cities on Flame"	4:08
3.	"ME 262"	8:47

Side four
No.	Title	Length
4.	"Before the Kiss (A Redcap)"	5:05
5.	"Maserati GT (I Ain't Got You)"	8:59
6.	"Born to Be Wild"	6:36
Total length:		78:13

Personnel

Band members

• Eric Bloom - Lead vocals on tracks 1-2, 4-5, 9, 11-12, stun guitar, synthesizer
• Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser - lead guitar, lead vocals on "Last Days of May" and "Before the Kiss (A Redcap)"
• Allen Lanier - rhythm guitar, keyboards
• Joe Bouchard - bass, lead vocals on "Hot Rails to Hell"
• Albert Bouchard - drums, guitar, lead vocals on "Cities on Flame"

Production

• Murray Krugman, Sandy Pearlman - producers
• Tom Scott, Kurt Kuntzel, Aaron Baron, Tim Geelan, Pete Weiss, Jerry Smith - engineers
• Jack Douglas - engineer, mixing
• John Berg and Gerard Huerta - design
• John Berg - cover photo

Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1975	Billboard 200 (North America)[5]	22
	RPM100 Albums (Canada)[7]	22

Sales Certifications

Year	Country	Organization	Sales
1977	U.S.	RIAA	Gold (500,000+)[8]

References

1. Ruhlmann, William. "Blue Öyster Cult On Your Feet or on Your Knees review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2012-03-16.
2. Christgau, Robert. "Consumer Guide Reviews: On Your Feet or on Your Knees". Robert Christgau. Retrieved 2012-03-16.
3. Popoff, Martin (October 2003). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 1: The Seventies. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. ISBN 978-1894959025.
4. Miller, Jim (8 May 1975). "Album Reviews: Blue Oyster Cult - On Your Feet or on Your K nees". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 2008-01-19. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
5. "On Your Feet or on Your Knees Billboard Albums". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2012-03-16.
6. "Blue Öyster Cult Billboard Albums". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2012-03-16.
7. "Top Albums/CDs - Volume 23, No. 9, April 26, 1975". Library and Archives Canada. 26 April 1975. Retrieved 2012-03-16.
8. "RIAA Searchable Database - search for On Your Feet or on Your Knees". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved 2012-03-16.