THE CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
Blue Oyster Cult: “On Your Feet or on Your Knees" (Columbia). I can’t imagine ever learning something new from this group again—its concept has worn out—but this live double-lp, proof that they’ve finally earned the right to release quickie product, is a fit testament.
THE CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
by
Robert Christgau
Blue Oyster Cult: “On Your Feet or on Your Knees" (Columbia). I can’t imagine ever learning something new from this group again—its concept has worn out—but this live double-lp, proof that they’ve finally earned the right to release quickie product, is a fit testament. The packaging makes the ominoso heavy-metal joke which has always been the Cult’s secret more explicit than it’s ever been before, and if the music is humdrum as often as it is searing—well, this is really heavy metal, then, isn’t it? B.