Rocket Dive

"Rocket Dive" is the eighth single by Japanese musician hide, the first to bear the hide with Spread Beaver name, released on January 28, 1998. It reached number 4 on the Oricon Singles Chart and was the 33rd best-selling single of the year. It has been certified double platinum by the RIAJ for sales over 500,000 copies.

"Rocket Dive"
Cover of the 2007 re-release.
Single by hide with Spread Beaver
from the album Ja, Zoo
ReleasedJanuary 28, 1998
Genre
LabelUniversal Victor
Songwriter(s)hide
Hide with Spread Beaver singles chronology
"Hi-Ho/Good Bye"
(1996)		 "Rocket Dive"
(1998)		 "Pink Spider"
(1998)

The song's name and intro are a homage to Kiss' "Rocket Ride". Its music video was directed by Shūichi Tan, who went on to direct the video for hide's next single, "Pink Spider".[1]

On May 2, 2007, the single was re-released with a slightly different cover.[2] On December 8, 2010, it was re-released again as part of the third releases in "The Devolution Project", which was a release of hide's original eleven singles on picture disc vinyl.[3]

Reception

"Rocket Dive" reached number 4 on the Oricon Singles Chart.[4] By the end of 1998 it sold 690,220 copies, making it the 33rd best-selling single of the year.[5] The single was certified gold by the RIAJ in February 1998, platinum in May 1998, and double platinum in February 2020 for sales over 500,000.[6]

It was used as the opening theme song for the 1998 anime series AWOL -Absent Without Leave- and appears on its soundtrack.[7] It was the theme song of the Fuji TV variety show Rocket Live, which aired from October 2012 to March 2013.

Track listing

All songs written by hide.

No.TitleLength
1."Rocket Dive"3:41
2."Rocket Dive (Voiceless Version)"3:42
3."Doubt (Mixed LEMONed Jelly Mix)"3:59

Personnel
  • hide – vocals, guitar, bass, arranger, producer
  • Joe – drums
  • Eric Westfall – mixing engineer, recording engineer (at Victor Studio)
  • Ritsuko Baba – assistant engineer (Victor Studio)
  • Yasushi Konishi – recording engineer (at Studio Somewhere)
  • Kazuhiko Inada – recording engineer
Personnel for "Rocket Dive" per Ja, Zoo liner notes.[8]

Cover versions

The song was covered by Tomoyasu Hotei on the 1999 hide tribute album Tribute Spirits.[9]

Tetsuya Komuro remixed the song for his 2007 album Cream of J-Pop ~Utaitsuguuta~, which was released under the name DJ TK.[10]

It was also covered by Megamasso on the compilation Crush! 2 -90's V-Rock Best Hit Cover Songs-, which was released on November 23, 2011 and features current visual kei bands covering songs from bands that were important to the '90s visual kei movement.[11]

defspiral covered it for their 2011 maxi-single "Reply -Tribute to hide-", which also included the band's interpretations of three other hide songs.[12] hide had signed the members' previous band, Transtic Nerve, to his label Lemoned shortly before his death in 1998.

It was covered by And for the compilation album Counteraction - V-Rock covered Visual Anime songs Compilation-, which was released on May 23, 2012 and features covers of songs by visual kei bands that were used in anime.[13]

The track was covered by R-Shitei for the Tribute II -Visual Spirits- tribute album, which was released on July 3, 2013.[14]

Amiaya and Kishidan recorded versions for Tribute VI -Female Spirits- and Tribute VII -Rock Spirits-, respectively. Both albums were released on December 18, 2013.[15][16]

Luna Sea covered "Rocket Dive" at the second day of their rock festival, Lunatic Fest on June 28, 2015.[17]

The song was covered by Dragon Ash for the June 6, 2018 Tribute Impulse album.[18]

References
  1. "映像で音楽を奏でる人々 第16回 ［バックナンバー］ 90年代から"カッティングエッジ"を追求する丹修一 hide、ミスチル、サザン……名だたるアーティストのMVを手がける映像作家". Natalie (in Japanese). 2020-05-02. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  2. "hideの"誕生会"今年も開催決定!!". barks.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2011-06-26.
  3. "hide singles on vinyl". tokyohive.com. Retrieved 2011-06-26.
  4. "hideのシングル売り上げランキング" (in Japanese). oricon.co.jp. Retrieved 2012-07-08.
  5. "What's This Year - Music 1998". interq.or.jp (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2007-12-31. Retrieved 2004-07-16.
  6. "Japanese album certifications" (Enter Hide into the アーティスト then select 検索) (in Japanese). Recording Industry Association of Japan. Retrieved 2021-05-30.
  7. "AWOL Original Soundtrack". cdjapan.co.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-04-27.
  8. Ja, Zoo liner notes, 1998-11-21. Retrieved 2013-01-27
  9. "hide TRIBUTE SPIRITS". amazon.co.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2012-06-10.
  10. "Cream Of J-POP ~ウタイツグウタ~". Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2013-01-27.
  11. "Aoi, Moran, and more to release '90s Visual Kei cover album". tokyohive.com. Retrieved 2011-09-28.
  12. "Reply -tribute to hide-". cdjapan.co.jp. Retrieved 2011-12-09.
  13. "V-Kei Anime Song Cover Compilation "Counteraction!" and MJP TV to Collaborate! Live Talk Program with Asai Hiroaki and the Artists Participating!". musicjapanplus.jp. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
  14. "Two hide Tribute Albums to be Released Simultaneously!". musicjapanplus.jp. Retrieved 2013-05-05.
  15. "hide Tribute VI -Female SPIRITS-". cdjapan.jp. Retrieved 2013-12-15.
  16. "hide Tribute VII -Rock SPIRITS-". cdjapan.jp. Retrieved 2013-12-15.
  17. "LUNA SEA Celebrate 25th Anniversary With Star-studded LUNATIC FEST". MTV. 2015-07-31. Retrieved 2016-03-27.
  18. "hide最新トリビュート盤にHISASHI × YOW-ROW、西川貴教、MIYAVI、GRANRODEOら" (in Japanese). Barks. 2018-04-14. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
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