O Monstro Precisa de Amigos is the second studio album by Portuguese band Ornatos Violeta, released on 22 November 1999 by Polydor.

[4] O Monstro Precisa de Amigos is noted to be a much more mature and versatile album than the band's debut Cão!, offering a more meditative and polished sound.

[5] For their second album, the band could count with the guest participation of Gordon Gano of Violent Femmes and Portuguese musician and actor Vítor Espadinha.

The Violent Femmes were a long-time reference for Ornatos,[6] and their lead singer Gano shared vocal duties with Manel Cruz in the single "Capitão Romance", in which he sang in Portuguese.

[1] Espadinha contributed with the recitation of a poem that can be heard at the end of "Ouvi Dizer",[7] another of the album's singles which has been called a "post-modern classic" by some media outlets.