Rocket Dive
| "Rocket Dive" | ||||
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Cover of the 2007 re-release.
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| Single by hide with Spread Beaver | ||||
| from the album Ja, Zoo | ||||
| Released | January 28, 1998 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Label | Universal Victor | |||
| Writer(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, being certified Double Platinum by the RIAJ. 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. 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.
All songs written and composed by hide.
"Rocket Dive" reached number 4 on the Oricon chart. By the end of 1998 it sold 690,220 copies, making it the 33rd best-selling single of the year.
It was used as the opening theme song for the 1998 anime series AWOL -Absent Without Leave- and appears on its soundtrack. It was the theme song of the Fuji TV variety show Rocket Live, which aired from October 2012 to March 2013.
The song was covered by Tomoyasu Hotei on the 1999 hide tribute album Tribute Spirits.
Tetsuya Komuro remixed the song for his 2007 album Cream of J-Pop ~Utaitsuguuta~, which was released under the name DJ TK.
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.
defspiral covered it for their 2011 maxi-single "Reply -Tribute to hide-", which also included the band's interpretations of three other hide songs. hide had signed the members' previous band, Transtic Nerve, to his label Lemoned shortly before his death in 1998.
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