Accents

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

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
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
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

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

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
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

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"

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