Rocket Dive

"Rocket Dive"
Single by hide with Spread Beaver
from the album Ja, Zoo
Released January 28, 1998
Genre Alternative rock
Label Sony
hide with Spread Beaver singles chronology
"Hi-Ho/Good Bye"
(1996)
"Rocket Dive"
(1998)
"Pink Spider"
(1998)

"Rocket Dive" is the eighth single by hide, the first to bear the hide with Spread Beaver name, released on January 28, 1998. The song's name and intro are an homage to Kiss's "Rocket Ride". By the end of 1998 it sold 690,220 copies, making it the 33rd best-selling single of the year.[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]

The song was covered by Tomoyasu Hotei on the 1999 hide tribute album Tribute Spirits. 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.[4] defspiral covered it for their hide tribute maxi single "Reply -Tribute to hide-".[5]

Track listing

No. Title Lyrics Music Length
1. "Rocket Dive"   hide hide  
2. "Rocket Dive (Voiceless Version)"   hide hide  
3. "Doubt (Mixed Lemoned Jelly Mix)"   hide hide  

Reference