Blue Öyster Cult's first live album was also their first to peak inside the Top 40, an indication of the audience the group was building up through extensive touring. Songs that had a tight, concentrated impact on studio albums got elongated here. And although
BÖC had dropped some classics from their first album by the time of their 1974 tour documented here,
On Your Feet or on Your Knees 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." ~ William Ruhlmann