Line #84 Music/DaYoopers


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3	A musical group hailing from the Upper Peninsula of UsefulNotes/{{Michigan}}, Da Yoopers has had 35 years of flying under the radar.
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5	Founded in Ishpeming, Michigan in 1975 as Joe Arkansas by drummer Jim [=DeCaire=], guitarist Joe Potila, bassist Jim Pennell, and keyboardist Lynn Anderson, the band achieved local success before self-releasing the album ''Yoopanese'' in 1986. Its followup, ''Culture Shock'', accounted for two of the band's most famous songs: "Rusty Chevrolet" and "Second Week of Deer Camp." Both songs received regional airplay on several radio stations throughout the Great Lakes region, and even appeared on Creator/DrDemento's national radio program. On ''Camp Fever'', Pennell was replaced by Joe [=DeLongchamp=] and Jerry Coffey began contributing on drums and percussion as well; one year later came ''Yoop It Up'', which saw Lynn and Jerry marry. For the most part, the band's repertoire consisted of original content written and produced by [=DeCaire=] and Potila.
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7	For ''Yoopy Do Wah'', their first release on CD, Dave "Doc" Bradbury became their third bassist. Followup ''One Can Short of a Six-Pack'' (1994) was their last album with Potila. In 1995, he was replaced by Jim Bellmore on lead guitar, co-production, and co-writing duties, while rhythm guitarist "Cowboy" Dan Collins (who had previously sung backing vocals on ''Culture Shock'' and ''One Can Short of a Six-Pack'') officially joined. Bellmore's first studio album, ''We're Still Rockin''', featured him on both guitar and bass due to Bradbury's departure. Potila died in 2001.
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9	By decade's end, Reggie Lusardi and Bobby "Sy" Symons had respectively become touring bassist and drummer, although Bellmore and [=DeCaire=] typically retained those roles in-studio. Later albums saw Dan Collins and Jerry Coffey's departure, along with Lynn divorcing Jerry and marrying Jim Bellmore. The last touring lineup consisted of [=DeCaire=], the Bellmores, Symons, and Lusardi, who died in 2016. Although the band stopped touring after 2013, the Bellmores and [=DeCaire=] have continued to record sporadically. This includes the album ''Old Age Ain't for Sissies'' in 2018. Bellmore has also released a number of solo songs on Bandcamp.
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11	In addition to the various members, Da Yoopers frequently featured guest musicians on their albums, mostly culled from local talent. Live shows also featured interstitial sketch comedy typically performed by a stage crew, whose membership and numbers varied over time. Unlike the rest of the band, the sketch comedy actors rarely appeared on albums.
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13	The band is known for singing songs primarily dealing with rural life in the Upper Peninsula, including topics such as drinking beer, hunting, dealing with long winters, [[RunningGag drinking more beer]], eating Swedish and Finnish food, and [[RuleOfThree more beer]]. They also own Da Yoopers Tourist Trap, a gift shop and museum.
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15	!Albums:
16	* ''Yoopanese'' (1986)
17	* ''Culture Shock'' (1987)
18	* ''Camp Fever'' (1988)
19	* ''Yoop It Up'' (1989)
20	* ''Yoopy Do Wah'' (1991)
21	* ''One Can Short of a Six-Pack'' (1994)
22	* ''For Diehards Only'' (1995)
23	* ''We're Still Rockin''' (1996). First release after Joe Potila was replaced by Jim Bellmore.
24	* ''Jackpine Savage'' (2000)
25	* ''Naked Elves in Cowboy Boots'' (2000)
26	* ''Songs for Fart Lovers'' (2004)
27	* ''Diehards II'' (2004)
28	* ''21st Century Yoopers in Space'' (2006)
29	* ''Old Age Ain't for Sissies'' (2018)
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31	!Members:
32	* Jim Bellmore (guitar, bass guitar, vocals)
33	* Lynn Bellmore[[note]]formerly Lynn Anderson, then Lynn Coffey[[/note]] (keyboards, vocals)
34	* Jim "Hoolie" [=DeCaire=] (drums, vocals)
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36	!Former (official) members:
37	* Dave "Doc" Bradbury (bass guitar, vocals)
38	* Jerry "Cuppa" Coffey (drums, percussion, vocals)
39	* "Cowboy" Dan Collins (rhythm guitar, vocals)
40	* Joe [=DeLongchamp=] (bass guitar, vocals)
41	* Reggie Lusardi (bass guitar, vocals)
42	* Jim Pennell (bass guitar, vocals)
43	* Joe Potila (guitar, vocals)
44	* Bobby "Sy" Symons (drums)
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46	!Former sketch comedy contributors:
47	* Jim Boyer
48	* Matt "Matty" Bullock (last one to leave, staying until 2013)
49	* Dick "Dick-E-Bird" Bunce (sporadically played bass as well)
50	* Steve Calhoun
51	* Art Davis
52	* Chris Kukla
53	* Jerry "Mungo" [=LaJoie=]
54	* Pete "Casanova" [=LaLonde=]
55	* "Billy Bob" Langson
56	* Robert "Dill" Nebel
57	* Mike "Mikku" Powers
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59	!Tropes present:
60	* ACappella: "My First Time Ever" was done in four-part vocal harmony, with Bellmore [[SelfBackingVocalist singing all four vocal parts]].
61	* AdrenalineTime: "We Need da Money", the first track on ''We're Still Rockin''', speeds up faster and faster with each line.
62	* AlbumTitleDrop: ''Culture Shock'' is title-dropped on "Yooper Talk", and ''Yoopy Do Wah'' comes from a breakdown at the end of "Transplant Song".
63	* AllPeriodsArePMS: "Ridin' da Cotton Pony" suggests this.
64	* TheAllegedCar:
65	** The subject of "Rusty Chevrolet":
66	-->Rust and smoke, the heater's broke\
67	The door just flew away\
68	I light a match to see the dash\
69	And then I start to pray\
70	The frame is bent, the muffler's went\
71	The radio, it's okay\
72	Oh, what fun it is to drive\
73	This rusty Chevrolet
74	** "Yooper Snow Rocket" is about The Alleged Snowmobile, an old piece of junk that is held together by duct tape and rust and can't go any faster than 25 miles per hour.
75	* AntiChristmasSong: "Rusty Chevrolet" and "Grandpa Got Run Over by a Beer Truck" are their two most famous, but they have a few others:
76	** ''One Can Short of a 6-Pack'', the album that spawned "Beer Truck", also includes "Christmastime at My House" (which contains the line "We celebrate his birthday by spending all our dough") and "One Day After Christmas" ("...I'm crabby and I'm broke").
77	** ''Naked Elves in Cowboy Boots'' is full of them, with such gems as "I Want a Rinky Dinky Doo Dad for Christmas" (see CoolToy, below), "Naked Elves in Cowboy Boots" (titular elves that haunt only the narrator and other people who don't believe in Christmas), and "Deck da Brother-in-Law" (in-law shenanigans from the narrator's brother-in-law, which include among other things, a cat being duct-taped to the TV).
78	* AntiLoveSong: "Happy Birthday Fungus Face". The narrator (Lynn) comments that her husband's birthday came to mind while she was cleaning out her toilet bowl, so she writes a "happy birthday rhyme" that is full of insults.
79	* AscendedExtra:
80	** Jim [=DeCaire's=] son Jesse made a couple guest appearances on ''Camp Fever'', and sang lead on "Yooper Kid" one album later, while he was still a child. Jesse later played guitar on "Shuckin' da Cob", and would sporadically appear as a guest musician on later albums before becoming their sound tech.
81	** "Cowboy" Dan Collins sang backing vocals on a couple albums before becoming a touring member around 1996.
82	** Dick Bunce had assisted the band in their comedy sketches for years, but near the end of his tenure, he played bass on a handful of songs instead of Lusardi or Bellmore.
83	* AssShove: The resolution to "Diarrhea":
84	-->I'll take a cork and Super Glue\
85	Pound it in there with my shoe\
86	And then I'll be all through\
87	With diarrhea
88	* AuthorCatchPhrase: Deer/beer shows up a lot as a StockRhyme. They also make repeated use of Finnish slang such as "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisu sisu]]".
89	* TheBandMinusTheFace: They survived the departure of frontman Joe Potila.
90	* BigEater: Present in several songs, most notably "Pizza in My Shorts" (family who eats a lot of pizza) and "Meathead" (man who eats a lot of meat).
91	* BizarreInstrument: A few of their songs from ''Jackpine Savage'' onward feature a guest musician playing the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_cello pogo cello]] (or as they spell it, "polka-chella").
92	* ButICantBePregnant: "Three Months Late" is about a guy freaking out over his girlfriend getting pregnant during deer hunting season.
93	-->She's late! She's late! Oh Lord she's three months late\
94	I took her to my uncle's camp, and now she's three months late!
95	* CallBack:
96	** ''Camp Fever'' has two: Late in the album, a character mumbles "My mouth tastes like I ate my socks", a line from "Crawlin' Home Puker" on ''Yoopanese''. At the end, all the guys sing a few bars from "Second Week of Deer Camp".
97	** One track on ''Yoopy Do Wah'' is titled "Nudsie's Wedding Reception". Several tracks later, "Free Beer" has the line "Our old pal Nudsie got married..."
98	** ''Jackpine Savage'' has more. "Can't Find da Truck" uses the line "We've been lost before, and this is what it looks like", previously a line of dialogue on one of the skits on ''Camp Fever''. Later, another skit references painting a face on a board with a hole in it and pretending that it's a woman, referencing a skit on ''One Can Short of a 6-Pack''. The skit "Burt & Bunna", about two squirrels (mentioned below), is also a call-back to ''One Can Short''.
99	* CommonMeter: The verses of "Dear Mr. Governor", "Beer Gut", and "Transplant Song" are all common meter double.
100	* CoolToy: "I Want a Rinky Dinky Doo Dad for Christmas". The son demands that his parents buy him the toy in question, leading to the mom getting into a fight at UsefulNotes/{{Kmart}}. Come Christmas, the son is excited to get the toy, only to be told that it's being recalled. He then says that's okay, because what he really wants is another toy that's even better. As a result, both parents FreakOut.
101	* CreditsGag: On ''We're Still Rockin''', [=DeCaire=]'s credits include "broom" and "coffee".
102	* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: In one skit on ''Camp Fever'', the wife of a man who has run off somewhere threatens to "give him a vasectomy with a rusty chainsaw" if he ever returns.
103	* DiaperCheck: The subject of "Da Turdy Lb. Diaper".
104	* DirectionlessDriver: In the "Beer Run" skit, the guys drive around for hours, following what Potila claims is a shortcut. They pass several landmarks again and again before they finally realize Potila has been holding the map upside-down, and end up in a completely different town once they realize this.
105	* DoubleEntendre: "Do You Wanna Buy an Organ" is ostensibly about the musical instrument, but could be about something else:
106	-->Do you wanna buy an organ\
107	I'll sell it to you cheap\
108	She never let me touch it\
109	So you know it ain't been beat...
110	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Quite a lot of it on their early tapes:
111	** ''Yoopanese'' is all over this, as the band barely resembles itself. "My Shoes" and "Critics Tune" are completely serious songs with more conventional themes; "Robot Girl" and "I Don't Wanna Glow" have science fiction overtones that stand in contrast to the mostly realistic approach of their later work; and "Road to Gwinn" is one of only a very small number of parodies in their catalog. It is also the only album besides ''Yoopy Do Wah'' not to have interstitial skits or guest musicians (''Old Age Ain't for Sissies'' has no skits either). Also, Lynn is playing an analog synthesizer instead of a keyboard.
112	** ''Culture Shock'', despite containing the very famous "Rusty Chevrolet" and "Second Week of Deer Camp", still contains some weirdness. Notably, some tracks still have Lynn playing a synthesizer ("Last Frontier" even has a drum machine, something the band never used again); "Chiquito War" continues to show a mild science-fiction theme; and the B-side is dominated by Finnish folk songs performed by guests with "folk" style instrumentation such as washtub bass, jugs, and spoons. Also, "Rusty Chevrolet" and "Second Week of Deer Camp" are examples themselves despite being among their most famous songs: the former is a song parody, and the latter is accompanied solely by accordion and washtub bass (both played by guests).
113	** ''Camp Fever'' has the band mostly shifted to its most famous sound, but the B-side is still dominated by folk song covers with minimalistic instrumentation. By ''Yoop It Up'', pretty much everything was in place.
114	* ElvisImpersonator: In "He Thinks He's Elvis", the narrator (Lynn) laments that her husband woke up this morning and thought himself to be Elvis.
115	* FakeMemories: Referenced in the chorus to "Da Anniversary Song":
116	-->The older you get, the more you forget\
117	To remember what you should recall\
118	You fill in the blanks in your memory with things\
119	That may not have happened at all...
120	* FakeRadioShowAlbum: ''Camp Fever'' and ''One Can Short of a 6-Pack'' use a fictional radio show called "YOOP Radio" as a FramingDevice, with relevant skits interspersed among the songs. The former has a StoryArc where all of the YOOP staff are at the deer camp while an inexperienced DJ (played by Jerry Coffey) substitutes, while ''One Can'' merely includes the skits in the track listing. ''Jackpine Savage'' brought back "YOOP Radio" for one skit, which was a CallBack to a skit from ''One Can''.
121	** This actually originates in ''Culture Shock'', but is easy to miss. Only one interstitial skit there explicitly mentions the station call sign YOOP, but the station call-in phone number (used in the skit ''Talk Time'') is also an obvious tell once you know about the FramingDevice: 371-YOOP.
122	* FatAndProud: "Beer Gut":
123	-->Beer guts of America, stand up if you can\
124	Stick out your big beer gut and hoist a cool one in your hand\
125	Your beer gut is your buddy, it's a friend who's always near\
126	And all you ever have to do is feed it lots of beer
127	* FeelingTheirAge: ''Old Age Ain't for Sissies'' is largely dedicated to songs about the ups and downs of being of retirement age, with cuts such as "They All Stopped Drinking" and "I'm Old".
128	* ForgottenAnniversary: The subject of "Da Anniversary Song". She tries to hint that it's their anniversary, but he's stuck on amusing anecdotes from her uncle's funeral.
129	* {{Gasshole}}: Just about every album has had at least one reference to farting, with gems such as "Diarrhea" and "If I Could Fart Like My Dad". Then there's ''Songs for Fart Lovers''...
130	* GenreRoulette: They've done traditional folk songs, polka, country, and rock, just to name a few. This genre-hopping gets turned up to eleven on ''We're Still Rockin''', where every song is done in a different musical style (for example: "Big Truck" is truck-driving country, "Green Green Grass" is {{reggae}}, "Vampire Surfin' Girls" is surf rock, "My First Time Ever" is a cappella, "Shuckin' da Cob" is '90s punk, etc.). ''Jackpine Savage'' dialed it down slightly, but still had the hard rocking "Super Dooper Yooper Love Machine".
131	* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: "Chiquito War" describes a "chiquito", a cross between a chicken and a mosquito which was bred through BlackComedyRape.
132	* IAmSong: "Yooper Cowboy Dan".
133	* InTheStyleOf: "You're My Porky Babe" is in the style of Sonny and Cher.
134	* InnocentInnuendo:
135	** "[[http://dayoopers.com/theaterm/fsttmevr.mp3 My First Time Ever]]" sounds dirty with its lines about a female spreading her legs, the narrator putting his hands on her breasts, and "white stuff" coming, but it's really about [[spoiler:milking a cow]].
136	** Similarly, "Beer Gut" has one:
137	--->I took my date into the sauna, and on the bench we sat\
138	She pointed and she said, "I've never seen one big as that"\
139	She held it and she stroked it, and she told me with a smile\
140	"Bodybuilders make me sick, but [[ChubbyChaser beer guts drive me wild]]"
141	* KidsRock: [=DeCaire's=] son, Jesse, sang "Yooper Kid" with a few other kids singing backup.
142	* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: All of the albums featuring Bellmore stand out for having more GenreRoulette than the albums on which Potila was involved.
143	* LeadBassist: Everyone who has ever played bass for the band (except for Dick Bunce) has sung at least one lead vocal.
144	* LeadDrummer: Jim [=DeCaire=] is the most prominent member of the band, having co-written and produced nearly all of their material.
145	* LethalChef: "She Don't Make Good Pasties" is about a wife who is terrible at making the titular food (a meat and vegetable pie of Cornish origin).
146	* ListingCities: "Christmas Is Everywhere" is just a list of cities and countries where Christmas supposedly can be found.
147	* LocalReference: They frequently name-drop a lot of the smaller former mining towns in the Upper Peninsula. Some songs also reference businesses with a strong presence in the area, such as IGA supermarkets and (now-defunct) Shopko department stores in "Rusty Chevrolet".
148	* LyricalDissonance: "Diarrhea" is performed as a straight-up love ballad. At least barring the fart solos.
149	* LyricalShoehorn: The opening lines to "Dear Mr. Governor", in which a "troll from down below"[[note]]the Mackinac Bridge connects the two peninsulas, so anyone living in the Lower Peninsula is a "troll", as they live "under the bridge"[[/note]] brushes a snowflake off his body, kicks it in the lake, then says that he'll "stay down here below the bridge and eat my birthday cake". Huh?
150	* MusicalGag: The skit "Rev. Send Me Money" on ''Camp Fever'' features a radio preacher backed by organ music... which happens to be "Second Week of Deer Camp" played in the style of a hymn.
151	* NakedPeopleAreFunny: "Naked Elves in Cowboy Boots". The titular elves chase a man who doesn't believe in Christmas, and no one else can see them.
152	* NewSoundAlbum: ''We're Still Rockin''' turned up the rock influences in the band's sound (likely a result of Jim Bellmore taking over from Joe Potila).
153	* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: "Vampire Surfin' Girls" from Munising Bay.
154	* NobodyLovesTheBassist: Zig-zagged. They changed bassists twice within their first decade of recording, and some of the songs on their second and third albums have either a guest musician on a washtub bass, or no bass parts whatsoever. Bellmore played all the bass parts on ''We're Still Rockin''' due to it being recorded after Bradbury left; while they later hired Reggie Lusardi as a touring bassist, Bellmore continued to play nearly all of the bass parts in studio (with one notable exception being "One More Beer").
155	* NonAppearingTitle: "Chiquito War", "Bingo Fever", "Fishin wit Fred", "Yooper Kid", "Pizza in My Shorts", "Da Fishing Trip", "He Thinks He's Elvis", "My First Time Ever", "She Don't Make Good Pasties"…
156	* NoseShove: In "Fish Fight Song", the female lead threatens to shove the husband's fish eggs up his nose if he shrugs off his duties as a father in favor of fishing again. She then implies an AssShove with the spoken line "Somewhere else, too".
157	* OneHourWorkWeek: "Fishin Wit Fred" Defies this trope just for the sake of recreational fishing.
158	-->Twenty Yoopers on a pontoon boat, fishin' for Moby Dick\
159	The wife, she thinks I'm working, and the boss, he thinks I'm sick\
160	It's a perfect day for fishing, drinking beer, and telling lies\
161	It's a little bit like heaven, when you're fishing with the guys
162	* ParentalHypocrisy: The narrator of "Shuckin' da Cob". He is scolded by his father for masturbating to porn magazines, but counters dad by saying that he got the magazines from dad's dresser.
163	* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Admittedly it's about a recreational sport rather than a job, but "Second Week of Deer Camp" is about hunters who "never shoot no deer."
164	* PolkaDork: Usually with Jim "Hoolie" [=DeCaire=] dressing in nerdy clothes. He also plays a nerdy lead in "Desperation Polka", about a nerd who is so desperate that he dates (and marries) a fat ugly woman.
165	* PottyFailure:
166	** The protagonist of "Diarrhea" has an accident after a bout of what he thinks is "only gas".
167	** The title character in the skit "Santa's Helper" (from ''Naked Elves in Cowboy Boots'') offers burps and farts to the listener as "gifts". Upon being asked for one more, he strains to make one last fart and ends up soiling himself instead.
168	* RearrangeTheSong:
169	** The versions of "Smeltin' USA" and "Three Months Late" on ''For Diehards Only'' feature slightly different instrumentation arrangements.
170	** The late-90s video compilation ''It's About Time, Eh!'' had a re-recording of "Diarrhea" with a more polka-style instrumentation and local musician Kim Lenten on lead vocals. This re-recording later appeared on their website, and then on ''Songs for Fart Lovers''.
171	* RevolvingDoorBand: Quite a few membership changes. Jim [=DeCaire=] and Lynn Anderson/Coffey/Bellmore are the longest-lasting members.
172	* RobotGirl: "Robot Girl" on their debut album has Lynn dismissing an unfaithful man who wants a "robot girl" who will cater to his whims.
173	* RhymingWithItself:
174	** "Last Frontier", the first track on ''Culture Shock'', rhymes "fall" (the season) with "fall" (the verb).
175	** "I Tink My Beagle's Gay" rhymes "way" with itself on the chorus.
176	* SameLanguageDub: They released a music video for "Rusty Chevrolet" in the early 1990s, featuring the group's then-lineup of Jim [=DeCaire=], Joe Potila, Lynn Coffey, Doc Bradbury, and Jerry Coffey. However, the latter two were not in the band at the time the song was released, and [=DeCaire=] didn't play anything on it, so only Lynn and Joe are matched up.
177	* SelfBackingVocalist: Done frequently. Notable examples include:
178	** On "Dear Mr. Governor", Lynn sings both the chorus and part of a "ba bum ba bum" counterpoint under it.
179	** Doc Bradbury does his own harmonies on the verses of "Free Beer".
180	** [=DeCaire=] sings harmony over himself on the chorus of "Da Fishing Trip".
181	** Jim Bellmore tends to sing most of his own harmonies. For instance, "My First Time Ever" is an ACappella song where he sings all four vocal parts, and he can be heard doing a bass harmony under himself on "Yooper Snow Rocket".
182	* TheSomethingSong: "Fish Fight Song", "Cow Pie Song", "Sauna Song", "The Transplant Song", "Da Anniversary Song".
183	* SongParody: Not their primary genre, but they've done a few:
184	** "Road to Gwinn" ("On the Road Again" by Music/WillieNelson)
185	** "Rusty Chevrolet" ("Jingle Bells")
186	** "Grandpa Got Run Over by a Beer Truck" ("Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" by Elmo & Patsy)
187	** "Packer Backer Anthem" ("The Star-Spangled Banner")
188	** "It Was Eino" ("The Banana Boat Song" by Harry Belafonte)
189	* SongStyleShift:
190	** "We're Still Rockin'" has a more upbeat midsection compared to the slower rock of the rest of the song.
191	** "Yooper Snow Rocket" shifts to a mostly ''ACappella'' B-section with only vocals and hand claps.
192	* StylisticSuck: Invoked in a newspaper article, where [=DeCaire=] said that they decided not to let Joe [=DeLongchamp=] sing a song they had been working on, because [=DeCaire=] thought that his voice was too good for it.
193	* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion:
194	** "Deer Hunter's Widow" repeatedly subverts rhymes to "shit" by having the word go unsung.
195	** "Butcher Town" uses a long chain of averted rhymes, "Miss Susie" style.
196	** "Arm Chair Quarterback" uses the familiar "Rah rah ree, kick 'em in the knee / Rah rah rass, kick 'em in the other knee" cheer during a break.
197	* SynchroVox: Done twice with a mounted deer head on "Camp Go for Beer", a song exclusive to ''It's About Time, Eh!''
198	* TakeThatCritics: "Critics Tune":
199	-->This world is full of critics, they never have no fun\
200	They don't like our music, we're just a bunch of bums\
201	This world is full of critics, it's time to take a stand\
202	[[LetsSeeYouDoBetter If you don't like the music, go start yourself a band]]
203	* ToiletHumor: While obvious in ''Songs for Fart Lovers'', they've also done several other references to flatulence and related bodily functions (such as "Lonely Yooper", where the narrator hides in an outhouse to escape an affair but ends up getting defecated on instead).
204	* TruckDriversGearChange:
205	** "Wanna Buy an Organ" goes from C Minor on the verses to C major on the chorus, and then back at each verse.
206	** "Don't Go Up Dere" shifts from E to F♯ before the third verse.
207	** "Camp Go for Beer": G♭ to A♭ at the last chorus.
208	* UnusualEuphemism: "Ring Dang Do" is about female genitalia, apparently.
209	* VocalTagTeam: They are ''all over'' this trope. Jim [=DeCaire=], Joe Potila, and Jim Bellmore usually did the vocals, but nearly every album had at least one song sung by Lynn. Among the official members, there were several rotations:
210	** Jim Pennell sang "Smeltin' USA" and "Chicquito War".
211	** Joe [=DeLongchamp=] sang "Camp Fever" (which he also wrote) and "Drinking Resort".
212	** Doc Bradbury sang "Transplant Song", "Free Beer", "Christmastime at My House", "Grandpa Got Run Over by a Beer Truck", and the first verse of "Heikki Lunta".
213	** Jerry Coffey sang "Super Dooper Yooper Love Machine". He also did two lines on "Nite Crawler Boogie", part of the unison lead vocals on "Wanna Buy an Organ", and a duet with Lynn on "Ridin' da Cotton Pony".
214	** Double example with "Da Turdy Lb. Diaper": Jerry Coffey sang it in concert for several years, but after he quit, it went to Reggie Lusardi instead. Lusardi also sang the studio version on ''21st Century Yoopers in Space''.
215	** Dan Collins sang (obviously) "Yooper Cowboy Dan". He also sang "Diarrhea" live for a time after Potila left.
216	** Many of their songs are unusual in that they were sung by guests:
217	*** ''Culture Shock'': Bertha and Elaine Hintsala sang "Iso Sika", Glenn Adams did half of the spoken-word verses on "Dear Mr. Governor" ([=DeCaire=] does the other half of each verse, and Lynn does the chorus), and Sandy Kemppa sang "Da Couch Dat Burps".
218	*** ''Camp Fever'': Glenn sings "Sauna Song" and "Butcher Town".
219	*** ''Yoop It Up'': Jim [=DeCaire=]'s son Jesse sings "Yooper Kid".
220	*** ''Songs for Fart Lovers'': As mentioned above, Kim Lenten sings a re-recording of "Diarrhea" (originally sung by Potila on ''Yoop It Up'').
221	*** ''21st Century Yoopers in Space'': Al "Goofus" Ammesmaki sings "Yooper Love Song" and "One More Beer", Kim Lenten sings "Got My Sisu Working" and "Designated Driver's Drunk", Jim Stedman sings "It's Cold" and "Nimrod Nation", Barbara Johnson sings "No Black Bloomers", Frank Sarvello sings "I Taught It Was a Buck", Jesse [=DeCaire=] sings "Snow Day", and Tanya Stanaway sings "Tanya's Song".
222	*** ''Old Age Ain't for Sissies'': Jesse [=DeCaire=] sings "I Tried to Be a Yooper Man", Glenn Adams sings "I'm Old" (pitch-shifted), and Kim Lenten sings "Living in Yooper Paradise".
223	* VocalEvolution: Jim Bellmore's voice got a lot deeper and more aged. Compare [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNAbgnUuvpY "We're Still Rockin'"]] (1995) and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBw5_AQcR6w "Coffee wit da Boys"]] (2018).
224	* VolleyingInsults: "Mental Monkey" is a string of these between a brother and sister.

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