On Your Feet or on Your Knees

On Your Feet or on Your Knees is the first live album by American rock band Blue Öyster Cult, released February 27, 1975 by Columbia Records. The album features three songs from each of the band's first three studio albums, two covers ("I Ain't Got You," albeit with modified lyrics, and "Born to Be Wild"), and one ("Buck's Boogie") 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. The cover lettering designed by Gerard Huerta, also used on the 2012 boxed set, was one of the first "Heavy Metal" logo designs.

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
Venue	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]
Christgau's Record Guide	C+[2]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	8/10[3]
Rolling Stone	(mixed)[4]

The album hit No. 22 on the Billboard 200,[5] thus making it the band's highest-charting album in the United States.[6]

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Subhuman"	Eric Bloom, Sandy Pearlman	7:30
2.	"Harvester of Eyes"	Donald Roeser, Bloom, Richard Meltzer	4:55
3.	"Hot Rails to Hell"	Joe Bouchard	5:55

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
4.	"The Red and the Black"	Albert Bouchard, Bloom, Pearlman	4:33
5.	"7 Screaming Diz-Busters"	A. Bouchard, J. Bouchard, Pearlman, Roeser	8:27
6.	"Buck's Boogie"	Roeser	7:40

Side three

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Then Came the Last Days of May"	Roeser	4:35
2.	"Cities On Flame"	Roeser, A. Bouchard, Pearlman	4:08
3.	"ME 262"	Bloom, Roeser, Pearlman	8:47

Side four

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
4.	"Before the Kiss (A Redcap)"	Allen Lanier, Murray Krugman, Roeser, Pearlman	5:05
5.	"I Ain't Got You"	Calvin Carter	8:59
6.	"Born to Be Wild"	Mars Bonfire	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 "Then Came The 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 With Rock-And-Roll"

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 photograph at St. Paul's Chapel, Vista, New York[7]

Charts

Year	Chart	Position
1975	Billboard 200 (United States)	22[5]
	RPM100 Albums (Canada)	22[8]

Sales Certifications

Year	Country	Organization	Sales
1977	U.S.	RIAA	Gold (500,000+)[9]

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 (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: B". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 22, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
3. Popoff, Martin (October 2003). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 1: The Seventies. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 54. 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. Archived from the original on April 9, 2012. Retrieved 2012-03-16.
6. "Blue Öyster Cult Billboard Albums". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Archived from the original on November 12, 2010. Retrieved 2012-03-16.
7. http://www.musicalmaps.com.au/search/label/onyourfeetoronyourknees
8. "Top Albums/CDs - Volume 23, No. 9, April 26, 1975". Library and Archives Canada. 26 April 1975. Archived from the original on 19 October 2016. Retrieved 2012-03-16.
9. "RIAA Searchable Database - search for Blue Oyster Cult". RIAA. Retrieved July 22, 2012.