So What?
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| Single by Anti-Nowhere League from the album We Are...The League |
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| Released | 1981 | ||||
| Format | 7" | ||||
| Genre | Punk | ||||
| Length | 3:08 | ||||
| Label | WXYZ | ||||
| Writer(s) | Nick "Animal" Kulmer Chris "Magoo" Exall Clive "Winston" Blake |
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| Producer | Unknown | ||||
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"So What?" is a song written by the British punk band the Anti-Nowhere League. The song first appeared as the B-side of the band's debut 7" single "Streets of London", in 1981.
The song was written, according to the band, after sitting in a pub one night and hearing two men try to out do each other with stories of past experiences. The song is therefore a retort to people who tell embellished stories to make themselves appear better than the other person they are in conversation with.
The obscene lyrical content of the song caused the British police to seize all copies of the single from the band's distributors under the Obscene Publications Act and remove all copies from sale [1]. The song has subsequently been appended to various CD reissues of the We Are... The League album and has become somewhat of an anthem for the band.
The song was famously covered by Metallica and released as a B-side to the "Sad But True" single and later included on the Garage Inc. album; it is also a bonus track on the Asian and European versions of the Black Album. "So What?" has become an in-concert standard for the band.
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