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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''On Your Feet or on Your Knees''}}{{Infobox album
|title=''On Your Feet or on Your Knees''
|image=On your feet or on your knees cover.jpg
|artist=[[Blue Öyster Cult]]
|released=February 27, 1975
|recorded=April 27 and October 5–21, 1974 at Academy of Music, New York City<hr>Paramount Theatre, Portland, WA<hr>Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA<hr>Show Palace, Phoenix, AZ<hr>Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, CA<hr>P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada<hr>Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ
|length=78:13
|label=Columbia Records
|producer=[[Murray Krugman]]<br>[[Sandy Pearlman]]
|previous-album=''[[Secret Treaties]]''
|next-album=''[[Agents of Fortune]]''}}
'''''On Your Feet or on Your Knees''''' is the first live album by [[Blue Öyster Cult]]. It was released on February 27, 1975 by Columbia Records, peaking at No. 22 on the Billboard 200 on April 19 and holding for two weeks. It is their highest-charting release and was certified Gold by RIAA in 1977.

This album spawned one single, a studio version of "[[Born to be Wild]]" on side A and the live version from the album on side B, which did not chart.

== Personnel ==
=== Blue Öyster Cult ===
* [[Eric Bloom]] – vocals, stun guitar, synthesizer
* [[Buck Dharma|Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser]] – lead guitar, vocals
* [[Albert Bouchard]] – drums, guitar, vocals
* [[Joe Bouchard]] – bass, vocals
* [[Allen Lanier]] – rhythm guitar, keyboards

=== Production ===
* [[Murray Krugman]] – producer
* [[Sandy Pearlman]] – producer
* Tom Scott – engineer
* Kurt Kuntzel – engineer
* Aaron Baron – engineer
* Tim Geelan – engineer
* Pete Weiss – engineer
* Jerry Smith – engineer
* Jack Douglas – engineer, mixing
* Howie Lindeman – recordist
* Rod O'Brian – recordist
* Greg Calbi – mastering
* Scott Muni – intro
* Carroll Dodd – intro, lights
* Elliott Krowe – road manager
* [[Rick Downey]] – crew chief
* Mo Slotin – crew
* George Geranios – sound engineer
* Richard Holtz – lights
* Bruce Slayton – business manager
* John Berg – cover photo, design
* Gerard Huerta – cover design
* Belinda Rain – sky design
* Don Hunstein – back cover photo
* Special thanks to Roy Erickson, Norman Hunter, Shelly Grafman, Allison Steele, Maxanne Sartori, Malcolm Davis, Dick Kalt, Phil Charles, Jonathon Coffino, Don DeVito, Paul Rappaport, Mike Klefner, and Pastori Music
* "Buck's Boogie" dedicated to Ron McCoy

== Track listing ==
* <sup>+</sup> Title as it appears on the album
* <sup>-</sup> Cover song
{| class="wikitable"
!#
!Title
!Writer(s)
!Lead vocals
!Length
|-
| colspan="5" |'''Side one'''
|-
|1
|[[Subhuman|The Subhuman]]<sup>+</sup>
|Bloom, Pearlman
|Bloom
|7:30
|-
|2
|[[Harvester of Eyes]]
|Roeser, Bloom, Meltzer
|Bloom
|4:55
|-
|3
|[[Hot Rails to Hell]]
|J. Bouchard
|J. Bouchard
|5:55
|-
| colspan="5" |'''Side two'''
|-
|4
|[[The Red and the Black]]
|A. Bouchard, Bloom, Pearlman
|Bloom
|4:33
|-
|5
|[[7 Screaming Diz-Busters|Seven Screaming Diz-Busters]]<sup>+</sup>
|A. Bouchard, J. Bouchard, Roeser, Pearlman
|Bloom
|8:27
|-
|6
|[[Buck's Boogie]]
|A. Bouchard, Roeser
|Instrumental
|7:40
|-
| colspan="5" |'''Side three'''
|-
|7
|[[Then Came the Last Days of May|Last Days of May]]<sup>+</sup>
|Roeser
|Roeser
|4:35
|-
|8
|[[Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll|Cities on Flame]]<sup>+</sup>
|Pearlman, Roeser, Bouchard
|A. Bouchard
|4:08
|-
|9
|[[ME 262]]
|Bloom, Roeser, Pearlman
|Bloom
|8:47
|-
| colspan="5" |'''Side four'''
|-
|10
|[[Before the Kiss, a Redcap|Before the Kiss (A Redcap)]]<sup>+</sup>
|Pearlman, Krugman, Lanier, Roeser
|Roeser
|5:05
|-
|11
|[[Maserati GT (I Ain't Got You)]]<sup>-</sup>
|Calvin Carter
|Bloom
|8:59
|-
|12
|[[Born to Be Wild]]<sup>-</sup>
|Mars Bonfire
|Bloom
|6:06
|}

== Trivia ==
* "Buck's Boogie" was dedicated to Ron McCoy, a Los Angeles DJ.
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