"Head Full of Steam" is a song by the Australian alternative rock band The Go-Betweens that was released as the second single from their fourth album Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express.

The single version is markedly different from the album recording, with added keyboards, and a middle eighth where Forster asks, "Can I come to your place, and can I wash your hair?

"[3] Ned Raggett at Allmusic states ""Head Full of Steam" finds the band in relatively jangly mode, the sparkling chime of Robert Forster's and Grant McLennan's guitars almost as close as they ever got to being like the Cocteau Twins.

"[4] In Jason McNeil's review of Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express in Popmatters he states the "lone drawback might be the laissez faire attitude on “Head Full of Steam”, a track whose title misrepresents it totally.

Sounding like a cross between Robyn Hitchcock and Tom Verlaine, his voice is no less unmistakable than Morrissey’s.."[7] Australian musician David McCormack (Custard) believes that "It’s a classic.