Rocket Dive
| "Rocket Dive" | ||||
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| File:Rocket Dive.jpg Cover of the 2007 re-release. | ||||
| Single by hide with Spread Beaver | ||||
| from the album Ja, Zoo | ||||
| Released | January 28, 1998 | |||
| Recorded | Late 1997 | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Label | Universal Victor | |||
| Songwriter | 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 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.
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
[edit | edit source]"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
[edit | edit source]All songs written by hide.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Rocket Dive" | 3:41 |
| 2. | "Rocket Dive (Voiceless Version)" | 3:42 |
| 3. | "Doubt (Mixed LEMONed Jelly Mix)" | 3:59 |
Personnel
[edit | edit source]- 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
[edit | edit source]The song was covered by Tomoyasu Hotei on the 1999 hide tribute album Tribute Spirits.[9] As the album was produced following hide's death, Hotei added some lyrics, including the line "Saraba akai kami no eirian" ('Farewell red-haired alien') at the end.[10]
Tetsuya Komuro remixed the song for his 2007 album Cream of J-Pop ~Utaitsuguuta~, which was released under the name DJ TK.[11]
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.[12]
defspiral covered it for their 2011 maxi-single "Reply -Tribute to hide-", which also included the band's interpretations of three other hide songs.[13] 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.[14]
The track was covered by R-Shitei for the Tribute II -Visual Spirits- tribute album, which was released on July 3, 2013.[15]
Amiaya and Kishidan recorded versions for Tribute VI -Female Spirits- and Tribute VII -Rock Spirits-, respectively. Both albums were released on December 18, 2013.[16][17]
Luna Sea covered "Rocket Dive" at the second day of their rock festival, Lunatic Fest on June 28, 2015.[18]
The song was covered by Dragon Ash for the June 6, 2018 Tribute Impulse album.[19]
References
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External links
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