On Your Feet or on Your Knees
| On Your Feet or on Your Knees | ||||
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| 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 |
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| Genre | Hard rock, heavy metal | |||
| Length | 78:13 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Murray Krugman, Sandy Pearlman | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Robert Christgau | (C+) |
| Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 8/10 |
| Rolling Stone | (mixed) |
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, thus making it the band's highest charting album in the U.S.
The cover lettering designed by Gerard Huerta, which was also used on the 2012 boxed set, was one of the first "Heavy Metal" logo designs.
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