Jerk It Out

"Jerk It Out"
Song

"Jerk It Out" is a song by Caesars which originally appeared on their album Love for the Streets and is also featured on the follow-up Paper Tigers in remixed form. There is also a Jason Nevins club remix, called "Jerk It Harder." Band members have been quoted as saying the phrase "jerk it out" and the song's lyrics mean "to just let out some steam, freak out, let yourself go, get crazy, etc."

The song also appears on the band's 2003 release 39 Minutes of Bliss (In an Otherwise Meaningless World) and in the end credits of the film Looney Tunes: Back in Action. It was released as a single in the United States and United Kingdom in 2003 to promote the album.

UK track listing

2003

CD

1. "Jerk It Out"
2. "Out of My Hands"
3. "She's a Planet"

7"

1. "Jerk It Out"
2. "The Cannibals"

2005

CD

1. "Jerk It Out"
2. "The Longer We Stay Together"

7"

1. "Jerk It Out"
2. "Up All Night"

Chart performance

The song was originally released in 2003 and only made an appearance on the UK Singles Chart (at a #60 showing). It was re-released in 2005 and appeared on their album of that year, Paper Tigers. The re-release peaked at #8 on the UK Singles Chart, #70 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #40 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.

In popular culture

"Jerk It Out" has seen wide use in the media. Some examples include:

• Commercials for the iPod shuffle, Mobiltel, Nivea, Coca Cola in South Africa and Indonesia, advertisement promoting the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2006, a TV dog show and the Renault Megane advert.
• The television shows RTL Autowereld, Gloire et Fortune : La grande imposture, Brainiac: Science Abuse, Dawson's Creek, NCIS, the British series Teachers, the HBO series Entourage, Weebl and Bob, and Brazilian soap-opera Cobras & Lagartos.
• The movies Fun with Dick and Jane, The Best Man, Turning Green, Yours, Mine and Ours, The Benchwarmers, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, Spun, Captivity, and Blackball.
• Movie trailers for The Pink Panther and Graduation. The remix was used in the trailer for Clerks II.
• The main theme for the video game LMA Manager 2004
• Radio DJ Paul Jaxon from Philadelphia Rock Station 93.3 WMMR uses it as the opening for a segment known as "Jaxon's iPod."
• Used in the "Kyle Gets Buckets 2.0" video performed by Kyle Singler of Duke University.

In Video Games

A number of video games have featured "Jerk It Out" as part of their soundtrack. These include:

• Big Air Freestyle
• Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA (Arcade and PlayStation 2 versions)
• FIFA Football 2004
• Need For Speed - Underground
• Just Dance
• LMA Manager 2005
• Rock Band 3 (as downloadable content)
• Samba de Amigo (Nintendo Wii version as downloadable content)
• SSX 3