Aldo Nova - Monkey on Your Back

[@MarioSilva-sx1ql]

If you're here and you listen to 80s music , you're rare and special

[@kepple83]

The 80s was the golden age of metal

[@HermitCamper]

A new generation is seriously missing out.

[@rmas32]

I remember buying this on vinyl at the, "Record Store" after seeing the video on MTV! Yes, once upon a time they actually played music videos! The 80's ruled!!!

[@kamiyama-chairdesklamp]

MTV today: Misnomer TeleVision.

[@valuedhumanoid6574]

I bought mine at Karma Records. It was a music store and head shop. They sold bongs and every type of pipe and paraphernalia for smoking weed, er...tobacco. Yes, it was a tobacco shop. hehe...

[@avidrocker]

@@valuedhumanoid6574 eh yeah, tobacco "quote un quote" :)

[@mickeythompson24]

@@valuedhumanoid6574 Karma Wacky Tabacky

[@Nexus974]

I can’t tell you how much I miss those days

[@karenbrown2135]

The 80’s were awesome. I am glad I lived through it.

[@AngelofAnguish]

LIKEWISE!

[@perrymichales4242]

Oh yeah and the concerts were epic

[@EternallyThankful-os6pz]

Aldo Nova showed some bravery here - as well just being a great song - he writes an anti drug abuse song when cocaine use was rampant and promoted widely in the industry... gotta give him credit for showing some backbone with this one.

[@TheDrewzdaddy07]

Just the mention of monkey on your back & another ride on the horse is referencing heroin

[@GreenManelishi]

I believe that "horse" is a reference to heroin.

[@brianscott6574]

These were the days when coke was in and opiates we're out.

[@johkangiser4812]

Seems like a Reagan just say no ad, i wonder if we promoted drug treatment and normalized getting help in the 80s instead of stereotypical reefer madness behavior

[@warinsidemyhead8939]

This is a heroin song....

[@mrpeabody7684]

this song is only 1 of a million reasons why i loved being a teen in the 80s wouldn't change it for the world

[@aldohattonduran5227]

Amen 🙏🏻 brother

[@spacecowboy_1962]

I was a teen in the 70's and in my 20's in the 80's. (1962) I heard ALL the good shit, lol

[@mikereiss4216]

I was a teen in the 80's but mostly into 70's stuff at the time (Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Yes, etc). However, I definitely remember this song for some reason. Good tune. They kind of reminded me of Triumph.

[@searcherT]

Amen Brother!

[@MrDefzilla]

You know that the internet did not exist back then?

[@roymeadows1708]

The 80`s for me was the greatest all round music decade of all time. So many genre`s, so many choices and continuous good music..It will never be beaten for me.

[@dizzeedean66]

You speak true. Watching MTV, at that time,(at whatother time)can you go from Motley Crue to Spandau Ballet to Thompson Twins to Lord's Ot The New Church to Cinderella to Helloween to etc.

[@b.hornetiii.6771]

Every new album or hit song was an event.

[@mark_beastpriest5539]

This song is more relevant today than when it was first writen.

[@BoogerNinja4Life]

Aldo's guitar tone on these early albums kicks ass

[@davidmarks509]

I noticed that as well. I love rock, but I got to say the best sounding guitar tone.

[@mikefromohio6489]

Gibson Les Paul baby

[@russellmitchem5465]

Oh yeah

[@mikefromohio6489]

@@AFullNelson yes sir

[@DetVen]

Those guitar solos on the first album have always just blown me away, they are all amazing, but the stand outs are "Heart to Heart", "Under the Gun" and "See the Light".

[@valerieprice7135]

I am going to be really raw. I have been clean for years off opiates. But last night I had a close call. I came so close to sticking a needle in my arm and I didn't. I ran. I love Aldo Nova. I watched this video again. Thank you Aldo Nova, who would think your song came out in high school. Yeah we all got older but you guys sound great. Your music is still good. Your album Subject, was one we used to blast in the truck when we went cruising. Thanks you guys!!

[@JeremyLeal1695]

Aldo Nova is soooooo god damn underrated. definitely way more than a one hit wonder.

[@RichM0410]

absolutely !!!

[@neobailey5268]

2 hit wonder

[@robrichardson9663]

3 hit - 1&3/4=1

[@billyreynolds4749]

Mr. Nova is VERY underrated!! He's one of my favorite guitarists, and I've been going to concerts since 1978!

[@scottmcgibeny]

Hell yesss!!!! Aldo Nova is so under-rated!!!

[@hookyjo72]

Everyone of his Albums was a Masterpiece, you could tell how much he put of himself into every one of them. Such an Underrated Artist.

[@spiraljoe1273]

Still a rockin bad ass jam....Loved in my teens / loving it in my 50's!

[@gaskan666]

WANTED time machine to take me back to the 1980s

[@1970borntorun]

You mean, before we had Marble-Mouth Eddie Vedder and his band of shitty musicians? Lol

[@tangerinerose3724]

You won't regret it. Was awesome.🤘😎

[@larsbonnet17]

Hop in one of them hot tub time machines.

[@AngelofAnguish]

@@tangerinerose3724 LIKEWISE! In my opinion, the '80s WERE, and ALWAYS WILL BE, "THE PINNACLE OF CIVILIZATION!"

[@marcdiaz5754]

Pick it up last week .

[@helenjean4543]

There is no other like Aldo nova.....no comparison. I'm infatuated by the music of his amazing talent. 👍❤🎤

[@davidsteen8354]

One of the best and most underrated songs of the 80s

[@dylanmcdaniel8971]

One of the best aldo nova songs besides fantasy

[@josesantosmoreno1874]

D4àa

[@ronmerchantjr1851]

Absolutely.this song kicks rocking roll ass....

[@fultonatorusa]

Io

[@hollow7966]

@lupe you

[@hollow7966]

@lupe I know

[@michaelpatrickhamilton3384]

I remember this song and video on MTV when they played music 🎶 I'm glad to hear and see the video again 👍

[@patriotguardharleyriders9767]

Wow! I had not heard this song in far too long! So happy to hear it again...Aldo Nova was a fave of mine back in the great 80's. ❤

[@DickCarlsson]

I´m 51 this summer and I still love this song!! The video..... hahahahaha love these 80´s videos!!

[@lucientintenebris7331]

Most Bad ass anti Drug song ever !!!

[@marijanbrkic4875]

Along with Genesis Tonight, Tonight, Tonight

[@ejsinner1520]

Bad ass and anti-drug do NOT go together. Lol

[@davidmarks509]

@@ejsinner1520 In this case it does

[@donsudia2674]

I like "That smell" by Lynryd Skynyrd. It's a cool anti drug song too.

[@danwillis1389]

That’s right

[@markaruski]

One of Aldo's best, takes me back to early computer days and Tron, awesome guitar chugging jam!

[@seangagnonProvidenceR.I.]

Tremendous musician. Guitar, vocals, songwriter Aldo was phenomenal.

[@robertespenschied8339]

Still is :)

[@seangagnonProvidenceR.I.]

@@robertespenschied8339 Yes he is I should have said is instead of was 😁

[@joebarrett2746]

The 80s were the best!! Glad I was born in 1972 and got to really soak up the 80s. A lot of the kids today ive spoken with wish they had been a part of our generation. At least the videos and music are still around.

[@EPstroker]

I'm a 1972 kid too. The 80s were our teen yrs. I'd go back and re live them in a heart beat.......current times really suck in comparison.

[@PhilFeedback]

The Computer room scene with the old reel tapes really takes me back to my first computer job.

[@ebiebanzhaf4971]

The sad truth of addiction. Excellent song Aldo Nova is great

[@betosworld4793]

WOW I remember this back in the 80s.When music was real and times were good.

[@donnabutlershepard7768]

great song, sad that the lyrics apply even more to today's youth then it did then..

[@tangerinerose3724]

Donna Butler shepard it's definitely timeless

[@williamleckrone1628]

Back then we just liked to smoke a lot of good green and drink whiskey

[@kimkelly1755]

Today it's opiates, especially Fentanyl and OxyContih.... kids getting hold of the stuff. Terrible.

[@beetee9402]

Plenty of people were using MR. BROWNSTONE back in the 1980's and 1970's. And Crystal METH (Pervitin) was already used by the German Wehrmacht in WWII to reduce fear, reduce need of sleep, and increase aggressiveness - noting the HORRENDOUS Physical and Psychotic INSANITY EFFECTS of Crystal METH, as well as the PERMANENT BRAIN DAMAGE by destruction of brain cells, SHRINKING of the BRAIN's key MEMORY, ORIENTATION, and NAVIGATION areas, and destruction of the brain's MOTIVATION (REWARD - PUNISHMENT) function - leading to emotional and social withdrawal of even light users.

[@scottkasper6378]

So true. We never actually knew anybody on heroin. Just heard about it. Now I know multiple people dead from it.

[@JeffTheNebraskaDJ]

ANOTHER TIMELESS CLASSIC! 80"S MUSIC RULES!! the dj

[@risingphoenix7633]

Me in my parents basement watching this on Beta after I recorded it off MTV....god i miss being a kid! Good times!

[@matthewkenna-h8k]

I skipped school in 1984 went home and watched this video for the 1st time ever!!! AN totally rocked!!!

[@redjack1876]

Remember watching this on MTV when i was in high school, awesome song and group.

[@scooterthebigfoot8224]

I'm 50. And I still give the metal horns sign when I hear " let me tell you a story"

[@michaelglattli2520]

I'm 51,nothing like hearing great tunes like this,to deal with my mid-life crisis.

[@gravemistake8072]

Kids...I am 59 and loved it then and appreciate it more now!

[@drumdude46]

Aldo, David Sykes on Bass, Kevin Carlson (r.i.p) on lead guitar, and billy carmassi ( yes...Denny Carmassi's little brother. Denny was the more famous sibling, who played with Montrose, Heart and Coverdale-Page) cool band here. i remember them on MTV, before MTV turned into a steaming, worthless pile of 'affected-90's Gen' DogShit. some of these guys hangin' around Sacramento in the 80's, when i was living there. i played drums for a band called Northrup. best times...

[@cindygoode2462]

To cool

[@markhuddleston5810]

You played with Johnny Edwards?

[@drumdude46]

@@markhuddleston5810 Hello Mark. Yes. Johnny was our singer for 2 1/2 years in Northrup. He went on after that to play for a couple years in Foreigner, and Royal Jelly, with his buddy Danny Stag, from Kingdom Come. he's now living back in the Louisville Area...and in a band called Blue Phonique.

[@drumdude46]

@SabuPtolemy Hello! yes. that's me in the Northrup band. ( later released as 'Gypsy Soul')

[@drumdude46]

@SabuPtolemy Hi Sabu...forgetting or 'unsure'..if anything on Enigma was pending or 'due to be released. ( been over 30 years...guess i 'could ask JK?) but i know we were being courted by Kenny Kommisar at Atlantic, and even Kalodner at Geffen at the time. many other 'names of A&R guys...being thrown about, during that time period. No...never performed under Gypsy Soul. that is a 'working title' name...that Kalil Turk, at Escape Music...decided to affix to our old Northrup product...for Release. ( unsure of 'why...he decided to do that?...JK knows...) That original Northrup band wouldn't have 'done a show' since 1990 or so. for something very recent..search for the "Mood Groove' Project on KZbin...think there are several tunes on there (Funk Soul Sister...and 'Moon Calling Sun")...much more recently recorded down in Sac, at Alien Production by JK and his partner Scott Vice ( Ed Balldinger) along with myself and Larry Hart, both Northup Alumni...and a host of other great musicians. cool stuff...and JK did a marvelous job producing, playing and mixing/mastering all that. some very awesome 'Zappa-esque' material... hope you enjoy!

[@panzerraptor8727]

When music was music. Raw, crude and with a melody.

[@elvis-jj1sc]

aldo we love ya the 80esssssssss rocked!

[@mustlovepretzels]

Happy Birthday today(November 13) to Aldo Nova. Cheers!🥨

[@scottlambert6777]

It's also my d Dad's birthday.

[@pats56]

Right bro unreal music days

[@thomasshaw4562]

Still listening in 2019.

[@billyreynolds4749]

Me too!! I've liked Aldo when he first came out, and I still like him in 2019!

[@yrikgolovchenko415]

I listen in 2020

[@Sammy-mp9xn]

2020 here 👍 🎶 🎸

[@dr.doolittle5617]

Dec. 2020......lol

[@mreoski]

Same

[@johnmiraglia1093]

Sick song sooo true

[@kepple83]

My favorite aldo nova song

[@skeletal13]

Aldo's so vampiric in this video. I know people that were freaked out by this one at the time. They were definitely thinking outside the box when they made this. Underrated artist.

[@DeA-ln1vu]

Can you explain why vampiric? (If you even see my question 5 yes later 😂)

[@skeletal13]

@@DeA-ln1vu it’s his performance. They way he seems to crawl through the video.

[@stevepouillon3562]

Man I haven't heard this in 30 years probably, sound's like yesterday though, funny how you can remember these word for word after this long and it sends you back to a time that was so different in our world peace and love y'all ❤️✌️

[@sirroxalot]

Good Lord, how awesome is this freakin' riff?! Sally is hot as shit, too. Good stuff.

[@Retnoob]

sirroxalot So is the bass player :D

[@guitarbo1]

sirroxalot Yes! Gotta find out who played Sally

[@laurenelizabeth1707]

Laurie Saylor...

[@christophercrowder872]

@@laurenelizabeth1707 Did she do any other videos or acting work?

[@murphyotoole9014]

@@laurenelizabeth1707 You rule. Thank you!

[@illustrate100]

1981 Ann Arbor, Michigan, Chrysler Arena, great show

[@greenrichardg]

83' Danny Spanos, Aldo, and Cheap Trick, live in KC Memorial Hall! Good times!

[@spazmobot]

Green computer graphics, so future. I love.

[@davidscherzer]

I remember the tune, didn’t remember how much it rocks. Aldo is so underrated!

[@whytegroovin]

A.O.R always should sound that hard , bravo monsieur NOVA ...

[@cluggyahoo]

Great Canadian Artist

[@tangerinerose3724]

CHARLES Canada effen rocks big time!

[@TMoody]

It was a magical time to be 13 in 1983... I would not trade it for all the money in the world.

[@richardthegingerbo909]

Would it have been more magical if one had been 16 in 1983?

[@johnoakes7922]

This my favorite song Aldo had done up to this point. I really liked the original video. There was a message behind this song and it flat out rocked! This was a big reflection on the music that was coming out in the 80's. I loved MTV when it first started into the 2nd or 3rd year before in manifested into something else. MTV was a big help to Aldo. Music is so much better with video of the band and is a great back drop for any message being conveyed. This song was so relevant at the time. It is just as relevant now. "Fantasy" and "Monkey on your back" are timeless master pieces that Aldo introduced to all of us. Thank you so much for sharing Aldo!!! I can't wait to here an instrumental album that is in you. I want you to write it all and play every instrument. The best album you ever did has still yet to be written and recorded.... I can't wait!!!! Thank you Aldo!

[@websurfer5772]

This is a good song with an excellent message.

[@MrSmokeydog]

Definitely a state of the Art video for back then . I remember watching it and unfortunately learning the meaning of that term. And sadly to say I have lost several cousins to heroin addiction and thought that was a thing of the past until it came back in full force and has devastated many parts of our country. My one cousin stopped using and lived a clean life no alcohol no tobacco and lived 30 years longer then hepatitis from the needles got him. My other cousin every organ failed and she just diminished to wheel chair and body shutdown. Bayer the maker of aspirin created heroin to kill pain, " Man it just Kills" period end of story.

[@RichM0410]

lost my 21 year old daughter to heroin😔 Aldo is awesome and have many good memories listening to him.... still rock out to Aldo at 54👍🏼

[@funzjag]

+Rich Moore Sorry to hear of your loss. I got out of that habit and for anyone reading this YOU CAN TOO!

[@the9-2-5outlawdoestech9]

You thought they would get a better monkey. Like Tom Savini's "Fluffy" from Creepshow. That's a terrifying monkey even though this song is about heroin addiction.

[@PhilFeedback]

Good memories of my youth listening to this song and others like it

[@mspw7]

Leather, Lasers, Aqua-Net & Baboons! Good GOD! I guess I know why I haven't heard from Aldo Nova in a while. That was fucking awesome! *tears streaming down my face* I'll be laughing for days over that.

[@alannovatolozza]

My uncle Aldo was great.

[@HelpThecats-oo8vr]

What do you mean was is he dead did he die

[@ebw7060]

The good ol' 80's. The days before digital.

[@davidwright4495]

I miss rock music like this....Getting old sucks. I'm 54 now. Need my youthful days back.

[@davehansenminnesota]

iconic song and video...and WAY ahead of its time. The whole "Subject" album is a masterpiece.

[@sheilanave7552]

Great time to grow up. Love the 80's. So many great memories. I was a teenager too

[@brent4770]

This dude can wale on the guitar!

[@sam-mp9fz]

I wanna go in a time machine back to the 80's. Good times.

[@jdshriver8268]

I got the also nova best hits CD and I hate when people say he only had one good fuckin song. Cry baby cry, hey operator, monkey on your back, fantasy.... the list goes on. Rock on aldo nova big fan I live in seargant Nebraska so boring love to meet you dude.

[@chanvalentine8283]

I miss the music from the 80's.

[@scooterthebigfoot8224]

Nobody had a voice like Aldo. That's what made him cool.

[@halstonmann8676]

Takes me back. Love the sound the lyrics and the attitude. Ahead of it's time. Begged my mom to sit down and watch this video, halfway through she got up and said: this damn song is about drugs!!!! And left in a huff. Mothers.......they just didn't understand. Lol.

[@Mtl3944]

Adore this music; always brings back memories.

[@chrisvesy7245]

Use to love kicking it with my Girlfriend watching MTV back in the 80s...Great times!!

[@dtogo4286]

80s so badass and cool

[@ronschafer4533]

My hometown radio station here in Southern Illinois still rocks this song and many like it

[@42lookc]

This tune rocks out with a vengeance! And a message. It's as viable today as it was then. Songs like this are what the monster receivers and speakers of the 70's and 80's were made for! The 80's STILL ROCK!

[@donnaschulcz1669]

God I love him.. Loved him since I was 12.. Now I'm 52...

[@bksfv6812]

Lord, I freaking love this song.

[@daytonmorehead7330]

I saw this video precisely ONE time as a 12 year old kid in 1983..... now exactly 40 years later in 2023, I found it !!!!!!

[@rickguider2405]

Yes..This song rocks!!!

[@leegreer9582]

These cheezy videos were the best in the world back in the 80's!!

[@leegreer9582]

It's all we had!

[@Boletodecinecom2011]

awesome song with a great message

[@nathanritzo2228]

These early '80s videos are so "wicked awesome." The artists went all-out in making them. Plus, the songs are so good! Sadly, this song's topic is more relevant today than back then. The talk-box in this song is genius, and Aldo is excellent!

[@Mike-mw7nl]

Bad ass jam....Used to listen to this in my old Vette... On cassette...

[@MD-eg9pr]

Mike chevette? 😂🍻

[@mreoski]

The entire SUBJECT album is awesome, IMHO. I particularly enjoy Track 3 “Armageddon” and the scorching - Track 12 - “War Suite” It will forever remain engrained in the memories of my gloriously misspent youth. I purchased it on vinyl, and to this day enjoy listening to it. It’s crazy to think that during this era, and shortly thereafter, Aldo got hooked on the China White.

[@bobthebear1246]

Really. How ironic, don't you think? Also, I could have sworn he was hooked on cocaine.

[@mreoski]

@@bobthebear1246 : Weren’t we all?

[@glenarnsdorff8515]

They went really well together lol. It is a wonder some of us lived through it...😪😳

[@bigwest7004]

Classic 80's computer nerd at the beginning. Freakin' awesome song. Thanks for posting.

[@1138thz]

i saw Aldo Nova live in LA and let me tell ya those motherfuckers can play. Great stuff.

[@fredericknewman5398]

This song & video sooo cool. Love the guy with the gold tooth...

[@TrulygreenSolution]

The late Kevin Carlson (a friend from Fremont, CA) played guitar with Aldo Nova. Kevin is the guitarist saying "Monkey," just after 2:00

[@rodorr642]

Rip Kevin! Great Guitarist!

[@ausfuhrpramienjagar]

Funny, but my friend David Sikes is the bass player here!

[@joewendyanthony4786]

WickedTornado Cancer 👎

[@tedembry7135]

He fucking rocked they were a tight band saw him first with Ozzy then Blue Oyster Cult

[@johncampbell930]

Like I said I'm still here in the 80s and it as bad ass as ever 💞💞💞😱😱🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧💨💨💨💨🍻🍻🍻

[@derekwilkinson6920]

Montreal's own Aldo Nova (previously known as Danny The Twister)

[@joykeebler1916]

Excellence - from our northern neighboring Americans of Canada

[@ibuprofenPill]

35 years later this song is still thought provoking.

[@mrfixer3166]

Great Memories!

[@talibe801]

i loved Aldo´s music thirthy years ago, and still do now.back in the 1991 i met Adrian Vandenbergh from whitesnake and we were talking about great guitar players,and asked him of Aldo Nova,and he told he can play with everyone...

[@chrismoore7359]

taste in music is like taste in food. everybody has their likes and dislikes. back in the day I loved this shit. today it brings back memories of a time when AIDS wasn't much of a threat where I lived. lots of weed, alcohol, Rock n Roll and Sex!

[@bretttaylor77]

+Charles Moore haha nice!!

[@P4OE]

Haha those old school computers . Great classic song .

[@southernsasquatch8404]

One of the all time best Aldo Nova hits! 👍😎

[@miguelmolina.]

🎶🎶✌✌🎧🎧🙌🙌😎😎📷📷👐👐🙏🙏💖💖💯💯still here lisenting this beautiful song from my teenager days 80s miss forever 💖great time to be alive good memories 😎😎🙏🙏a lot fun carefree 💖 Also nova great album is 2024 classic masterpiece love 💘it🎶🎶✌✌🎧🎧🙌🙌📷📷👐👐💖💖💯💯😎😎🙏🙏

[@jeffmusgrave6467]

Late 70s early 80s music wow. Seen him at the old Waldorf in San Francisco

[@cindylevingston64]

This song will make you jump up & start dancin around the room!!! I Love it a lot!!! "Keep it Rockin" Aldo!!❤😊❤😊

[@jimsteele6823]

Its hard to spank the monkey when its on your back.

[@carlwebb5420]

Now this song takes me...way back.

[@donaldkepple4927]

This is still my favorite aldo nova song

[@indianathiessen]

One of Aldo's finest