You Sound Like Louis Burdett
"You Sound Like Louis Burdett" | ||||
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Single by The Whitlams | ||||
from the album Eternal Nightcap | ||||
Released | January 1997 | |||
Recorded | 1996 | |||
Length | 4:01 | |||
Label | Black Yak / Phantom | |||
Songwriter(s) | Tim Freedman, Mark Wells | |||
Producer(s) | Rob Taylor & Tim Freedman | |||
The Whitlams singles chronology | ||||
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"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.
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
- "You Sound Like Louis Burdett" – 4:00
- "10 or 11 Drink Clown" – 3:49
- "Charlie No.3" – 4:29
- "Hurt" – 3:17
References
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- Tim Freedman
- Jak Housden
- Terepai Richmond
- Ian Peres
- Stevie Plunder
- Andy Lewis
- Ben Fink
- Stuart Eadie
- Michael Vidale
- Louis Burdett
- Hanuman Daas
- Michael Richards
- Tim Hall
- Oscar Briz
- Bill Heckenburg
- Chris Abrahams
- Cottco Lovett
- Alex Hewitson
- Mike Gubb
- Warwick Hornby
- "I Make Hamburgers"
- "Met My Match"
- "You Sound Like Louis Burdett"
- "No Aphrodisiac"
- "Melbourne"
- "Women in Uniform"
- "Thank You (for Loving Me at My Worst)"
- "Blow Up the Pokies"
- "Made Me Hard"
- "Fall for You"
- "Best Work"
- "Royal in the Afternoon"
- "Don't Believe Anymore"
- "Beautiful as You"