Crash Course In Science are a post punk band that formed in 1979 in Philadelphia. The band members, Dale Feliciello, Mallory Yago and Michael Zodorozny, met while attending art school, where they began to experiment with crude electronics and off-beat lyrics. CCIS avoided conventional instrumentation by using toy instruments and kitchen appliances to augment the distorted guitar, drums and synthesized beats.

Jump Over Barrels was recorded at the Third Story Studio in Philadelphia in 1981, one year after Signals From Pier Thirteen. The song remained unmixed and unreleased at that time for a proposed album titled Near Marineland.

Includes a new remix by prolific Ann Arbor producer Charles Manier and an unreleased demo version from 1980, accentuating the raw and skeletal nature of the track.