Rocket Dive
"Rocket Dive" | ||||
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![]() Cover of the 2007 re-release. | ||||
Single by hide with Spread Beaver | ||||
from the album Ja, Zoo | ||||
Released | January 28, 1998 | |||
Genre | Alternative rock, Hard rock | |||
Label | Universal Victor | |||
Songwriter(s) | hide | |||
hide with Spread Beaver singles chronology | ||||
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"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 chart and was the 33rd best-selling single of the year. It was certified Platinum by the RIAJ in May 1998.[1] The song's name and intro are an homage to Kiss' "Rocket Ride".
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 chart.[4] By the end of 1998 it sold 690,220 copies, making it the 33rd best-selling single of the year.[5]
It was used as the opening theme song for the 1998 anime series AWOL -Absent Without Leave- and appears on its soundtrack.[6] 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 and composed by hide.
No. | Title | Length |
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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
- 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.[7]
Cover versions
The song was covered by Tomoyasu Hotei on the 1999 hide tribute album Tribute Spirits.[8]
Tetsuya Komuro remixed the song for his 2007 album Cream of J-Pop ~Utaitsuguuta~, which was released under the name DJ TK.[9]
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.[10]
defspiral covered it for their 2011 maxi-single "Reply -Tribute to hide-", which also included the band's interpretations of three other hide songs.[11] 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.[12]
The track was covered by R-Shitei for the Tribute II -Visual Spirits- tribute album, which was released on July 3, 2013.[13]
Amiaya and Kishidan recorded versions for Tribute VI -Female Spirits- and Tribute VII -Rock Spirits-, respectively. Both albums were released on December 18, 2013.[14][15]
Luna Sea covered "Rocket Dive" at the second day of their rock festival, Lunatic Fest on June 28, 2015.[16]
The song was covered by Dragon Ash for the June 6, 2018 Tribute Impulse album.[17]
References
- ↑ "月次認定作品 認定年月:1998年 5月" (in Japanese). RIAJ. Retrieved 2018-02-18.
- ↑ "hideの"誕生会"今年も開催決定!!". barks.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2011-06-26.
- ↑ "hide singles on vinyl". tokyohive.com. Retrieved 2011-06-26.
- ↑ "hideのシングル売り上げランキング" (in Japanese). oricon.co.jp. Retrieved 2012-07-08.
- ↑ "What's This Year - Music 1998". interq.or.jp (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2007-12-31. Retrieved 2004-07-16.
- ↑ "AWOL Original Soundtrack". cdjapan.co.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-04-27.
- ↑ Ja, Zoo liner notes, 1998-11-21. Retrieved 2013-01-27
- ↑ "hide TRIBUTE SPIRITS". amazon.co.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2012-06-10.
- ↑ "Cream Of J-POP ~ウタイツグウタ~". Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2013-01-27.
- ↑ "Aoi, Moran, and more to release '90s Visual Kei cover album". tokyohive.com. Retrieved 2011-09-28.
- ↑ "Reply -tribute to hide-". cdjapan.co.jp. Retrieved 2011-12-09.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Two hide Tribute Albums to be Released Simultaneously!". musicjapanplus.jp. Retrieved 2013-05-05.
- ↑ "hide Tribute VI -Female SPIRITS-". cdjapan.jp. Retrieved 2013-12-15.
- ↑ "hide Tribute VII -Rock SPIRITS-". cdjapan.jp. Retrieved 2013-12-15.
- ↑ "LUNA SEA Celebrate 25th Anniversary With Star-studded LUNATIC FEST". MTV. 2015-07-31. Retrieved 2016-03-27.
- ↑ "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.