Hi-Ho/Good Bye

"Hi-Ho"/"Good Bye"
"Hi-Ho"/"Good Bye"
Single by hide
from the album Psyence
Released	December 18, 1996
Genre	Alternative rock; ska;
Label	MCA Victor
Songwriter(s)	hide
Hide singles chronology

"Hi-Ho"/"Good Bye" is the seventh and only double A-side single by Japanese musician hide, released on December 18, 1996. It reached number 8 on the Oricon chart.^[1]

The music for "Beauty & Stupid Tokyo Ska Version" is performed by Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra. Track 3 is a live version of "Pose" recorded at Yoyogi National Gymnasium on October 20, 1996, the entire concert was released as the live album Psyence a Go Go in 2008. On August 4, 2010, the single was re-released as part of the second releases in "The Devolution Project", which was a release of hide's original eleven singles on picture disc vinyl.^[2]

Track listing

All songs written by hide.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Hi-Ho"	5:46
2.	"Beauty & Stupid Tokyo Ska Version"	4:04
3.	"Pose (Live at Yoyogi on Oct.20.1996)"	5:00
4.	"Good Bye"	3:59

Personnel

hide – vocals, guitar, bass, arranger, producer
Satoshi "Joe" Miyawaki (ZIGGY) – drums on "Hi-Ho"
Eiki "Yana" Yanagita (ZEPPET STORE) – drums on "Good Bye"

Personnel per Psyence liner notes.^[3]

Cover versions

Yoshiki, hide's former X Japan bandmate, covered "Good Bye" on the 1999 hide tribute album Tribute Spirits.^[4] Jamosa covered it for Tribute VI -Female Spirits-, while Zeppet Store recorded a version for Tribute VII -Rock Spirits-. Both albums were released on December 18, 2013.^[5]^[6] "Good Bye" was covered by Cocco for the June 6, 2018 Tribute Impulse album.^[7]