Talk:Monkey on My Back

A Perfect Circle
Were lyrics from the A Perfect Circle song Weak and Powerless "someone feed the monkey while I dig in search of china white" lifting from this song "monkey on my back" or is the expression "monkey on my back" a more entrenched, longer used term for heroin addiction? If so, the article should have something to say about that, and the current Aerosmith song might need to be a redirect. 67.5.157.135 (talk) 04:50, 16 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, it's a much, much older term. I'm actually here because I was looking for the page on the film Monkey On My Back (film), which referenced it in a film title in 1957. I think a page on the phrase or concept could make more sense, but is perhaps more Wiktionary? FangsFirst (talk) 18:18, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

Primacy of Redirect
I realize this is likely going to disappear into the ether like the above comment did for 13 years until I found it, but as I was preparing to shift everything around, I realized how entrenched "Monkey on My Back" as the Aerosmith song is here on Wikipedia, and trying to make it instead redirect to the 1957 film is going to be a bit of a headache. As such, I don't feel particularly like undertaking it solo—but given that this page was removed for notability, it seems to me this really isn't where the redirect should go. I put a hatnote onto Pump (album) as a stop-gap, but I'm pretty sure this is not how this redirect should work, well-intended though I'm sure it was initially. FangsFirst (talk) 18:18, 4 October 2021 (UTC)