Accents

Songs that are sung in definite regional or character accents, that feature accents, or that mention accents:

Entirely accented

• All Alone - JL in a Southern inflection
• Anaheim - JL in a seedy, cornpone accent
• A Self Called Nowhere - JL in Bostonian/New Englander
• Birdhouse In Your Soul (Wicked Little Version) - JL in Bostonian/New Englander
• California Über Alles - JL impersonating Jello Biafra
• Charlottesville - JL in Southern
• Clowntown - JF in German
• The Devil Went Down To Newport - JF in Bostonian/New Englander
• The Glamour Of Rock - JF in a Deep Voice
• I Wasn't Listening - JF in Country Twang
• I'm All You Can Think About - JL in English
• It Never Fails - JF in short cop/fat cop
• It Was A Very Good Year - JL in Lounge Singer
• I Walk Along Darkened Corridors - JL in Morrissey
• Los Angeles - JL in Scouse
• Minimum Wage - JF in Cowboy
• Mr. Klaw - JF and JL in German
• Now Is Strange - JL in a tense, strained voice
• Number Three - JF and JL in Southern
• Particle Man (Live At XM Studio) - JL in Scouse, the style of The Beatles
• Pencil Rain - JL in a Deep Voice
• Philadelphia - JL in German
• Pictures Of Pandas Painting - JF and JL in English
• Preamble: Fernando Wood - JL in Fernando Wood (sounds German)
• Processional 2 - JL in confused elderly person
• Rat Patrol - JL and JF's self-described caterwauling
  • JF sings the demo in a sort of Southern accent
• Reprehensible - JF in Lounge Singer
• Road Movie To Berlin - JF in Cowboy
• Save Your Life - JL in English
• She Was A Hotel Detective - JL in Lounge Singer and Disco Diva
• Spine - JL with a somewhat Kermit-the-Frog-esque inflection
• Spoiled Milk From A Pampered Cow - JL in a sorta Posh accent.
• Trucker's Coffee - JF in Trucker
• Vancouver - JL in English
• We've Got A World That Swings - JL in Lounge Singer
• What Are We Doin' To Pigs? - in Cockney, reminiscent of The Sex Pistols
• Where Do They Make Balloons? - Danny Weinkauf in a very affected, almost-English voice
• Whistling In The Dark- JL in a Deep Voice
• Wicked Little Critta - JL in Bostonian/New Englander

Featuring brief accents

• Arkansas - JL in a deep voice
• The Bells Are Ringing - While repeating the line "they hear the sound", JL accentuates the vowels in the word "sound"
• The Bloodmobile - The accents of a Garbage Collector and a hardy soldier
• Can You Find It? - JL as deep-voiced "W" and urban "D"
• D & W - JL as deep-voiced "W" and urban "D"
• How Many Planets - Almost each planet is stated with a different, mostly non-specific accent
• I Am Not Your Broom - JL in Broom
• I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die - JL in a weird, elderly accent
• I Lost Thursday - JF sings in Nasal-ish
• Impossible - JF sings middle eight in Liverpudlian accent a la The Beatles
• It's Kickin' In - JF sings nonsense words in a "fake foreign accent"
• Mr. Xcitement - JF as a whispery announcer
• Lesson 16 - JL in Slavic followed by a non-accented translation
• Prevenge - JF briefly sings in Lounge Singer
• South Carolina - JL in a deep voice
• The Statue Got Me High - JL in a deep voice

Briefly mentioned

• Authenticity Trip - "I'm losin' my English accent"
• Definition Of Good - "Conversations in fake Russian accent"
• It's Kickin' In - "In some fake foreign accent"
• She Thinks She's Edith Head - "The accent in her speech, she didn't have growing up"

See also

• Language - TMBG songs sung in other languages.