"Monkey Wrench" was the lead single from Foo Fighters' second album, The Colour and The Shape.
The song is about the 1997 break up of Foo Fighters' lead singer, Dave Grohl's, 4 year marriage to Jennifer Youngblood.
"Monkey Wrench" peaked at #9 on the U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks and the Alternative Songs charts. It hit #1 in the U.K.
The screaming bridge of the song is almost impossible for Grohl to perform live because it was recorded in one breath. During Foo Fighters concerts he lets the audience yell it for him otherwise you'll hear a few breaths.
The video starts with Grohl riding the elevator up to his apartment with a bag of groceries in his arms. Over the speaker you hear a muzak version of the Foo Fighters song "Big Me" performed by The Moog Cookbook. My roommate in college was obsessed with The Moog Cookbook. I mean they're fun to listen to, but she was a huge fan.
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