On Your Feet or on Your Knees [Live]

On Your Feet or on Your Knees [Live]

Track Listings

1. Subhuman

2. Harvester of Eyes

3. Hot Rails to Hell

4. 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 With Rock & Roll

9. Me 262

10. Before the Kiss, a Redcap

11. Maserati GT (I Ain't Got You)

12. Born to Be Wild

Tracks:

The Subhuman
Harvester Of Eyes
Hot Rails To Hell
The Red & The Black
Seven Screaming Dizbusters
Buck's Boogie
Last Days Of May
Cities On Flame
Me 262
Before The Kiss (A Redcap)
Maserati GT (I Ain't Got You)
Born To Be Wild

Customer Reviews:

super live album .......2007-04-11

Nowadays we can look back and see that BOC have released at least 4 live albums, "On Your Feet........", the first in 1975, Some Enchanted Evening in 1978, Extra Terrestrial Live about 1980 en finaly in 2003 Long Days Night. Each of them proves the strenght of BOC as a live act, with a very good show that is equally impressive as say a show of KISS with different kind of effects. Being Dutch I had the honor of seeing them way back on several occasions in Holland and Germany. They were a somewhat mystic band with tremendous players, for instance Donald Roesers way of guitar playing is more fluent than Ace Frehley. "On Your Feet ...." is an epic document of their show and setlist midways the seventies, after having released the 3 black and white studioalbums, with nonalbumtracks such as "Bucks Boogie" (now is the studiorecordering as bonus available), the Blues Brothers song "I Aint Got You" and Steppenwolfs showstopper "Born to be Wild". Every track is outstanding and gives you the idea of being part of the audience. With 5 musicians on stage, some of them playing different instruments (i.e. guitar and keyboards) and 4 of them singing lead this must be a hell of a job to record but the band succeed in it. They had often incomprehensible lyrics which adds to their mysterous aura. Sometimes the music is utterly chaos, among them "ME 262" which culminates in "5 guitars" but beautiful recorded. A very strong album, simply one of the best live rockalbums ever made.

On Your Feet or on Your Knees.......2006-04-05

Being a fan of Blue Oyster Cult and not so much of the decision's of the radio airplay. This cd which many moon's ago I had on vinyl, remember. All I can say is "rocking"! Not so much on their Don't fear the Reaper but Cities on Flame. This CD is the one that has some excellent guitar and drum's that will make You bang your head or pull your little whip out that You will cherish forever. Excellent vocal's along with the hot "live" guitar's along with the mellowing out and then coming back in with an explosion of music if You've got the volume cranked up like it should be. "Last days of May" is one of the classic BOC song's they've done, All the song's on this CD are excellent to get You in the mood. One of the best live show's recorded, Pure Raw sound without the polished sound of the many take's of studio cut's. If anything it's worth having to play to the volume extreme and scaring Your kid's and letting them hear what music is all about. On a note of "CAUTION", listening to this while driving, "WATCH YOUR SPEED", and leave Your air guitar and drum's at home and keep those hand's on the wheel.

ALBERT, ALLEN, JOE, BUCK & ERIC'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE.......2006-03-30

Of all the live albums this band has ever done, this has got to be a personal best. Albert Bouchard, the band's drummer, stated in an interview that this was his favorite. This may not be BOC's best recorded album of all time, but it excells in surprises and unpredictability. It was listening to OYFOOYN that I was first introduced to this amazing band...they had an aura and a mystyic about them. Looking at the earlier albums later, I thought...just who are these guys, and better yet...which one was which?
THE SONGS

SUBHUMAN This band started off with a song that deserved a live recording. It has a certain Santana quality to it. Good starting song.

HARVESTER OF EYES Where did that oooweeoo sound come from? Synthesizer? Guitar? And by the way, who will take responsibility for that? Eric? Buck? Allen? It's perfect! This is the song that really introduces the album. It's way better than the SECRET TREATIES version and is unrelenting from beginning to end.

HOT RAILS TO HELL Joe Bouchard's hellhole trash metal. Once again, a much different and better turn than in the studio.

RED & THE BLACK A great song that is an all-time BOC classic, worth it all even just to hear Joe's bass solo.

SEVEN SCREAMING DIZ-BUSTERS The song your Baptist parents warned you about. Probably about as controversial a tune as ME-262, this entry has got some assorted treats in it.

BUCK'S BOOGIE Penned instrumental by Buck and Albert, this jawbreaker has some of the best guitar and keyboard give-and-take ever heard.

THEN CAME THE LAST DAYS OF MAY Blue Oyster Cult's mellower side. Yes, this version is much better than their first album's account. Buck's lead guitar literally sings on this one.

CITIES ON FLAME BOC comes roaring back with a song I'm sure all devoted BOC fans appreciate. Albert does the vocals, and this has got to be their best version...oh, to see all of this on DVD. Allen Lanier is especially impressive-to start off with keyboards (on the whole through their career Allen does not sing), and end the song with second guitar.

ME-262 As The Band's The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down is an account of the Civil War from a Southern man' perspective, this song is an account of WW2 from a German bomber pilot's angle of vision...about as controversial a song as Walker Blues by Steve Earle. This take on the song is a little inferior to the one on SECRET TREATIES but worth it to hear all of them on guitar. This is the live part to watch the early charter members do their five-man guitar frontal assault before the audience.

BEFORE THE KISS, A REDCAP My top-ten personal favorite from BOC. Actually, I love both takes on this one.

MASERATI GT A song by MC5 that I'm sure BOC loved to cover. This song has a certain roadhouse quality to it and it is enhanced by Eric's vocals and Buck's solo guitar in it.

BORN TO BE WILD The classic BOC live song they never wrote. Poorly recorded, it's sometimes hard to find out exactly what they are all doing during the song. I guess it might have been better to insert a live take of ODed ON LIFE ITSELF or DOMINANCE & SUBMISSION. Or even a DVD of OYFOOYN to see what is exactly going on.

On the whole, this album closes a chapter of BOC's first wild and crazy era. It is called the black and white period, where Blue Oyster Cult were the original bad boys your parents didn't want to even know about, much less listen to. Nowadays, the Oyster Boys keep on rocking the house with fans ranging from teenaged kids to 40-somethings such as me and older. I guess BOC's future may something on the order of selling out assisted living homes. One thing is for sure...they don't look like they will ever retire from this.

3.5 stars.........Updated: 4 stars.......2005-12-16

A thoroughly enjoyable if not somewhat incomplete live album that provides a snapshot into BOC circa 1974-1975. Some of the recordings are slightly muddy and distorted, for example, "The Red and the Black" and "Hot Rails to Hell", but all in all, this is a classic. Later live albums would have better production, but would lack the loose jam style of this gem. For example, listen to the jamming on the first cut, "Subhuman"; this is BOC at their finest moment...1974-1975, young hungry musicians at the peak of creativity. Some of the classics are strangely missing.....try to get BOC Live in the West bootleg for more from this time period.

Rosignal's Curious Albeit simply titled book THE ORIGIN OF WORLD WARS.......2005-09-30

This has to be one, if not the, greatest live Rock and Roll Album of all time. "ON YOUR FEET OR ON YOUR KNEES, Here they are from New York City, The Amazing Blue Oyster Cult!" And the album follows suit!!!!!!

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