"Monkey Wrench" is the first single released from the second Foo Fighters album The Colour and the Shape.
The music video was directed by the band's lead singer/songwriter Dave Grohl. In the video, Grohl and his bandmates try to force their way into Grohl's apartment, which has been locked from within by a second group of Foo Fighters, who are playing the song. When the door is finally opened, the musicians have left, and the first iteration of the band picks up their instruments to finish playing the song. Out in the hall, a third set of bandmates is listening, creating a recursive situation.
When Grohl enters the building and greets the superintendent, a muzak version of the Foo Fighters song "Big Me" can be heard.
A studio cover of this song is a playable song in the video game Guitar Hero II.
In 2007, a marching band arrangement by Michael Brown became available from Hal Leonard Corporation.
