"You Sound Like Louis Burdett" is a song by Australian band

The Whitlams The Whitlams are an Australian indie rock band formed in late 1992. The original line-up was Tim Freedman on keyboards and lead vocals, Andy Lewis on double bass and Stevie Plunder on guitar and lead vocals. Other than mainstay Freedman, the l ...

. It was released in January 1997 as the lead single from their third studio album, ''

Eternal Nightcap ''Eternal Nightcap'' is the third studio album by Australian rock band The Whitlams, first released by Black Yak Phantom in September 1997. The album peaked at number 14 on the ARIA charts and was certified gold, and then triple platinum. Singl ...

''. The single was placed at number 53 of Triple J's Hottest 100 of that year. Louis Burdett is an eccentric inner-west Sydney personality.

Tim Freedman Timothy James Freedman (25 November 1964) is an Australian musician, best known as the mainstay lead singer and keyboardist of the Australian band The Whitlams formed in 1993. Note: n-lineversion was expanded from the 2002 edition. The song ...

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

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'' 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."

Track listing

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

References

{{Authority control The Whitlams songs 1997 singles Songs written by Tim Freedman 1996 songs