Southern Accents is the sixth studio album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released on March 26, 1985, through MCA Records.

The album's lead single, "Don't Come Around Here No More", co-written by Dave Stewart of Eurythmics, peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100.

A studio version of "The Apartment Song" appeared on Petty's first solo album, Full Moon Fever, released in 1989.

While mixing the album's opening track, "Rebels", Petty became frustrated and punched a wall, severely breaking his left hand.

In a retrospective review, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic commented that while "occasionally, the songs work" and "Don't Come Around Here No More" and "Make It Better (Forget About Me)" expand [the band's] sound nicely", the record was too often "weighed down by its own ambitions".