You Sound Like Louis Burdett

"You Sound Like Louis Burdett" is the lead single by The Whitlams from their 3rd album, Eternal Nightcap. It was released on January 11, 1997[1] and did not chart. It was included on The Whitlams compilation album, Truth, Beauty and a Picture of You. 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 11, 1997
Recorded1996
Length4:01
LabelBlack Yak / Phantom
Songwriter(s)Tim Freedman, M Wells
Producer(s)Rob Taylor & Tim Freedman
The Whitlams singles chronology
"Met My Match / Following My Own Tracks"
(1995)
"You Sound Like Louis Burdett"
(1997)
"Melbourne"
(1998)

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.

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
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