On Your Feet or on Your Knees [Limited Edition Remaster]

by Blue Oyster Cult

Overview

On Your Feet or on Your Knees, Blue Oeyster Cult's first live album (there would be two more), was also their first to peak inside the Top 40 best-sellers, which is more of an indication of the audience the group was building up through extensive touring than of its quality. Songs that had a tight, concentrated impact on studio albums got elongated here, and that impact was dissipated. And the song selection left a great deal to be desired if this was to be a fitting summation of the band's career so far. Perhaps by their 1974 tour, BOeC had dropped such classics from their first album as "Transmaniacon MC," "I'm on the Lamb But I Ain't No Sheep," and "Stairway to the Stars," but the less impressive material from the third album was no substitute. The album did mark the first commercial release of a version of "Buck's Boogie" as well as covers of the Yardbirds' "I Ain't Got You" and Steppenwolf's "Born to Be Wild." [A Strictly Limited Collector's Edition was released in 2013.] ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date:	07/16/2013
Label:	Culture Factory
UPC:	0819514010098
Rank:	3138

Tracks

1. Subhuman
2. Harvester of Eyes
3. Hot Rails to Hell
4. The Red and the Black
5. 7 Screaming Diz-Busters
6. Buck's Boogie
7. (Then Came The) Last Days of May
8. Cities on Flame
9. ME 262
10. Before the Kiss (A Redcap)
11. I Ain't Got You
12. Born to Be Wild

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Blue Oeyster Cult   Primary Artist
Donald Roeser   Keyboards,Synthesizer,Guitar,Vocals
Allen Lanier   Vocals,Keyboards,Guitar (Rhythm),Bass,Guitar
Eric Bloom   Guitar,Vocals,Keyboards,Synthesizer
Albert Bouchard   Drums,Guitar,Vocals,Harmonica
Joe Bouchard   Bass,Piano,Guitar,Vocals

Technical Credits

Allen Lanier   Composer
Jack Douglas   Engineer
Eric Bloom   Composer
Jeff Bouchard   Composer
Sandy Pearlman   Composer,Producer
Jerry Smith   Engineer
Kurt Kuntzel   Engineer
Peter Weiss   Engineer
Aaron Baron   Engineer
Murray Krugman   Composer,Producer
Tim Geelan   Engineer
Albert Bouchard   Composer
Buck Dharma   Composer
Calvin Carter   Composer
Joe Bouchard   Composer
Mars Bonfire   Composer
Richard Meltzer   Composer
Tom Scott   Engineer
Donald Roeser   Composer