You Sound Like Louis Burdett

"You Sound Like Louis Burdett" is a song by Australian band The Whitlams. It was released in January 1997[1] as the lead single from their third studio album, Eternal Nightcap. The single was placed at number 53 of Triple J's Hottest 100 of that year.

"You Sound Like Louis Burdett"
Single by The Whitlams
from the album Eternal Nightcap
ReleasedJanuary 1997
Recorded1996
Length4:01
LabelBlack Yak / Phantom
Songwriter(s)Tim Freedman, Mark Wells
Producer(s)Rob Taylor & Tim Freedman
The Whitlams singles chronology
"Met My Match"
(1995)		 "You Sound Like Louis Burdett"
(1997)		 "No Aphrodisiac"
(1997)

Louis Burdett is an eccentric inner-west Sydney personality.[2] Tim Freedman once shared a cottage in Tempe with Burdett, who is described on the Whitlams' official site as "an underemployed avant-garde musician." The song's narrator repeatedly scolds himself for sounding like Louis Burdett.

Reception

The Guardian said, "Named for the drummer and Freedman’s one-time housemate, this energetic song is filled with sleazy guitar, jangling piano and a breathless account of life in Sydney that is bewildering to Whitlams fans living anywhere else."[3]

Track listing
  1. "You Sound Like Louis Burdett" – 4:00
  2. "10 or 11 Drink Clown" – 3:49
  3. "Charlie No.3" – 4:29
  4. "Hurt" – 3:17

References
  1. "The Whitlams singles - Release 6 (You Sound Like Louis Burdett)".
  2. "Louis Burdett".
  3. Sian Cain. "The Whitlams: their 25 best songs – sorted!". The Guardian.
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