Bite Your Tongue (song)

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"Bite Your Tongue"
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Single by Duncan Sheik
from the album Humming
ReleasedSeptember 8, 1998 [1]
Genre Rock
Length3:55(Album Version)
Label Atlantic
Songwriter(s) Duncan Sheik
Producer(s) Duncan Sheik
Duncan Sheik singles chronology
"Wishful Thinking"
(1998)		"Bite Your Tongue"
(1998)		"That Says It All"
(1999)

"Bite Your Tongue" was released as a single on February 2, 1999 [2] and is found on Duncan Sheik's second studio album, Humming . The song was called "a driving hard-pop number" by Rolling Stone's Neva Chonin, [3] "self-deprecating" by Allmusic's Roxanne Blanford [4] and Elysa Gardner from the Los Angeles Times said: "The single “Bite Your Tongue” rocks harder and more buoyantly than his previous hits.". [5] The song would also appear as a bonus track on the 2004 Daylight (Limited Tour Edition) CD [6] and on the 2006 double disk album Brighter/Later: A Duncan Sheik Anthology, released by Rhino Records [7] (Also released in 2007 as Greatest Hits – Brighter: A Duncan Sheik Collection, a single CD version. [8] )

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Beverly Hills, 90210

In 1998 Duncan Sheik appeared on the season premiere of the show Beverly Hills, 90210, [9] [10] In an episode entitled "The Morning After" Sheik performed "Bite Your Tongue" [11] as well as "Barely Breathing". [12]

Track listing

  1. "Bite Your Tongue" (Album Version) – 3:55
  2. "Bite Your Tongue" (Modern Mix) – 3:55

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References

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  2. ↑ "Bite Your Tongue". Billboard.com. Howard Appelbaum. Archived from the original on July 10, 2015. Retrieved 2009-01-21.
  3. ↑ Chonin, Neva (October 29, 1998). "Duncan Sheik – "Humming"". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on October 2, 2007. Retrieved 2009-01-21.
  4. ↑ Blanford, Roxanne. "Humming". AllMusic. AMG. Retrieved 2009-01-21.
  5. ↑ Gardner, Elysa (October 9, 1998). "Album Review – Duncan Sheik, "Humming," Atlantic". Los Angeles Times. pp. F-22. Retrieved 2009-01-21.
  6. ↑ Horowitz, Hal. "Daylight [Bonus Tracks]". AllMusic. AMG. Retrieved 2009-01-21.
  7. ↑ "Brighter/Later: A Duncan Sheik Anthology". Billboard.com. Howard Appelbaum. Archived from the original on July 10, 2015. Retrieved 2009-01-21.
  8. ↑ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Brighter: A Duncan Sheik Collection". AllMusic. AMG. Retrieved 2009-01-21.
  9. ↑ "Dean Markley Strings – Duncan Sheik bio". Archived from the original on 2010-03-25. Retrieved 2009-01-21.
  10. ↑ Sherman, Heidi (October 6, 2008). "Bite Your Tongue". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on January 19, 2010. Retrieved 2009-01-21.
  11. ↑ Cromelin, Richard (September 27, 1998). "Entertainment – Grab the Headphones (OCTOBER 6)". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2009-01-21.
  12. ↑ "Beverly Hills, 90210: The Morning After". TV.com. [CBS interactive]. Retrieved 2009-01-21.
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