"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.
[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.
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.