Pink Spider

"Pink Spider" (ピンク•スパイダー, Pinku Supaidā^?) is the ninth single by hide, the second to bear the hide with Spread Beaver name, released on May 13, 1998, eleven days after his death. The single debuted at number 1 on the Japanese Oricon weekly charts with sales over 513,000 copies in the initial week of the release.^[1] By the end of the year it sold 1,033,770 copies, becoming the 11th best-selling single of the year^[2] and was certified Million by the RIAJ.^[3]

This single is arguably his most well-known, because of the time of its release, the distinctive sound and since its title comes from a nickname given to him by fellow X Japan member Yoshiki.

On November 22, 2006, the single was re-released. 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.^[4]

The song was covered by Siam Shade and Cornelius on the 1999 hide tribute album, Tribute Spirits. Nu metal band Rize covered this song and released it as their single, "Pink Spider", in 2006. Rize performed their cover live at the "hide memorial summit" on May 3, 2008, the following day X Japan covered it live with Sugizo and Shinya. It was also covered by heidi. on the compilation Crush! -90's V-Rock Best Hit Cover Songs-, which was released on January 26, 2011 and features current visual kei bands covering songs from bands that were important to the '90s visual kei movement.^[5] defspiral covered it for their hide tribute maxi single "Reply -Tribute to hide-".^[6]

Track listing

References

1. ^ (Japanese) "Oricon Weekly Single Charts for the fourth week of May 1998". Oricon. http://www.oricon.co.jp/search/result.php?kbn=js&types=rnk&year=1998&month=5&week=4&submit4.x=35&submit4.y=11. Retrieved 2009-12-26. 
2. ^ (Japanese)"What's This Year - Music 1998". interq.or.jp. http://www1.interq.or.jp/kunioki/year/music/rc_ms98.shtml. Retrieved 2004-07-16. 
3. ^ (Japanese) "List of million sellers in 1998". RIAJ. http://www.riaj.or.jp/data/others/million_list/1998.html. Retrieved 2009-10-20. 
4. ^ "hide singles on vinyl". tokyohive.com. http://www.tokyohive.com/2010/09/hides-hits-re-released-on-vinyl-spawns-special-club-events/. Retrieved 2011-06-26. 
5. ^ "'90s Visual Kei Cover Album". jame-world.com. http://www.jame-world.com/us/news-69786--90s-visual-kei-cover-album.html. Retrieved 2011-01-28. 
6. ^ "Reply -tribute to hide-". cdjapan.co.jp. http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=DAKPLGC-72. Retrieved 2011-12-09.