On Your Feet or on Your Knees

{{Infobox album

| name = On Your Feet or on Your Knees

| type = live

| artist = Blue Öyster Cult

| cover = BOC_OYFOOYK.jpg

| alt =

| 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

| studio =

| genre = {{hlist|Hard rock|heavy metal}}

| length = 78:13

| label = Columbia

| producer = {{hlist|Murray Krugman|Sandy Pearlman}}

| prev_title = Secret Treaties

| prev_year = 1974

| next_title = Agents of Fortune

| next_year = 1976

| misc = {{Extra chronology

| artist = Blue Öyster Cult live

| type = live

| prev_title =

| prev_year =

| title = On Your Feet or on Your Knees

| year = 1975

| next_title = Some Enchanted Evening

| next_year = 1978

}}

}}

{{Music ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{rating|2|5}}{{cite web |last=Ruhlmann |first=William |title=Blue Öyster Cult - On Your Feet or on Your Knees review |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/on-your-feet-or-on-your-knees-mw0000198340 |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=March 16, 2012}}

|rev2 = Christgau's Record Guide

|rev2Score = C+{{cite book |last=Christgau |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Christgau |chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: B |chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=B&bk=70 |title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies |publisher=Ticknor & Fields |year=1981 |access-date=February 22, 2019 |isbn=089919026X |via=robertchristgau.com}}

|rev3 = Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal

|rev3Score = 8/10{{cite book |last=Popoff |first=Martin |author-link=Martin Popoff |title=The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 1: The Seventies |publisher=Collector's Guide Publishing |location=Burlington, Ontario, Canada |date=October 2003 |page=54 |isbn=978-1894959025}}

|rev4= Rolling Stone

|rev4Score = (mixed){{cite magazine |last=Miller |first=Jim |title=Album Reviews: Blue Oyster Cult - On Your Feet or on Your Knees |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/blueoystercult/albums/album/142181/review/5942280/on_your_feet_or_on_your_knees |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=May 8, 1975 |access-date=April 10, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080119085826/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/blueoystercult/albums/album/142181/review/5942280/on_your_feet_or_on_your_knees |archive-date=January 19, 2008}}

| noprose=yes

}}

On Your Feet or on Your Knees is the first live album by American rock band Blue Öyster Cult, released on Feb. 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, although it's 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. The cover art, photographed by John Berg, prominently features St Paul's Episcopal Chapel in South Salem, New York.{{cite web | title=Blue Oyster Cult Founders Explain Back Story on Classic Live Album On Your Feet or On Your Knees | url=https://www.themetalvoice.com/post/blue-oyster-cult-founders-explain-back-story-on-classic-live-album-on-your-feet-or-on-your-knees | access-date=2024-03-06}}

The album reached No. 22 on the Billboard 200,{{cite web |title=On Your Feet or on Your Knees Billboard Albums |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/on-your-feet-or-on-your-knees-r30967/charts-awards |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=March 16, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120409124156/http://www.allmusic.com/album/on-your-feet-or-on-your-knees-r30967/charts-awards |archive-date=April 9, 2012}} in so doing becoming the band's highest-charting album in the United States.{{cite web |title=Blue Öyster Cult Billboard Albums |url=http://allmusic.com/artist/blue-yster-cult-p3718/charts-awards |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=March 16, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101112173846/http://allmusic.com/artist/blue-yster-cult-p3718/charts-awards |archive-date=November 12, 2010}}