# Songs you can't play today
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-cant-play-today/1031799
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 20, 2026, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-cant-play-today/1031799 "2026-07-20T03:34:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Scoobysnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoobysnax)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2026, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-cant-play-today/1031799/141 "2026-08-10T15:47:18Z")
I enjoyed the third episode. My only complaint is how short it was. If you take out the very long recap, the opening credits, and the end credits, it can’t have been much more than 15 minutes.
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### Author:  [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2026, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-cant-play-today/1031799/142 "2026-08-10T18:04:45Z")
> [@Gyrate](#):
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> he does the accent. Also, “From A Logical Point of View” is one of the tracks. It’s just cringe in all sorts of ways.
Ringo sometimes sings in an American accent. What’s wrong with accents in songs?
> [@EinsteinsHund](#):
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> Mick Jagger (of course, he also likes to sing in a terrible faux Southern accent whenever the Stones play a country song) did it after Mitchum, but before Sting:
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### Author:  [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2026, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-cant-play-today/1031799/143 "2026-08-10T18:09:41Z")
It’s cringe, like the young folks say, to sing in an accent you did not grow up on and you don’t really have command of.
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### Author:  [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2026, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-cant-play-today/1031799/144 "2026-08-10T18:15:21Z")
Many singers default to a generalized sorta American accent. Keith Urban uses a Country twang, despite being a Kiwi.
I disagree, this certainly is not “A song you can’t play today”. If it bothers you, fine, but few others complain about this.
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### Author:  [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2026, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-cant-play-today/1031799/145 "2026-08-10T19:26:49Z")
_Tonight’s the Night_ is pretty oogy, too.
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### Author:  [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2026, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-cant-play-today/1031799/146 "2026-08-10T22:18:41Z")
No one has mentioned “They’re Coming to Take Me Away Ha Ha” by Napoleon XIV. It ran up the charts pretty fast, and down even faster.
Another would be “Mr. Turnkey” by Zagar & Evans (“In the Year 2525” fame), featuring an attempt at suicide in prison.
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### Author:  [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2026, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-cant-play-today/1031799/147 "2026-08-10T23:17:59Z")
> [@DrDeth](#):
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> Ringo sometimes sings in an American accent. What’s wrong with accents in songs?
An extremely white American guy singing in an Afro-Caribbean accent about climbing coconut trees in Trinidad is, while not blackface-level offensive, still pretty tacky by modern standards.
Please tell me you understand why a British guy singing in an American accent and an American singing in an Afro-Caribbean accent are not the same.
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