So What
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So What? (Anti-Nowhere League song)
"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.
History and controversy
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 . The word "fuck" appeared in the first line of the song. 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. Lyrics in the song include references to bestiality (I fucked a sheep/I fucked a goat...) and acquiring sexually transmitted diseases (I've had the crabs, I've had the lice/I've had the clap...).
So What! (magazine)
So What! is the magazine of The Metallica Club (usually known as Metclub), the official Metallica fan club. The magazine was started in 1981. It comes out four times a year just for club members and has 48 pages with Metallica news, photos and inside information. The title of the magazine came from their cover of Anti-Nowhere League's song "So What".
The band, along with So What! editor Steffan Chirazi released the 273 page book So What!: The Good, The Mad and The Ugly in 2004. This piece was a proverbial "best of" and contained some of the most noteworthy articles, pictorials, and interviews that the magazine has featured in more than a decade. The book also gave the general public its first non-membership look at the Metallica club and the quarterly release of its fan club magazine.
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by SFA
So What
by: SFAWe live in a world full of injustice and discrimination
Where people are shit but do you think I care
I see people struggling and fighting the system
To make the world better and I laugh when they fail
This is the world we made and I love it
Our world is dying so let's enjoy it
Rape recession invasions starvation discrimination
None of this means shit to me
Over a quarter of a million people died in the Persian Gulf War
I don't give a fuck, I didn't know any of them
I see people on the streets hungry and out of work
Well fuck them, I've got a job
If we're gonna have a war, let's have a real war
We've got all these nuclear weapons sitting around doing nothing; let's fire them off
Let's rape Mother Nature, Let's use all the world's oil
Leave nothing for the future because we won't be there
Let's have a blast as we burn down the forests
And poison the oceans, who really cares?
This world is ours, we can do what we want with it
If the world's gotta end, let's just do it
Abuse sickness drugs and degradation
None of this means shit to me
Killing animals for science is wrong
We should kill them for fun
Fuck the dirty little animals
It's survival of the fittest and we won
Let's get rid of all the ugly trees and dump our shit in the oceans
Let's get the factories pumping out some real pollution
All this clean air is making me choke
And if the environmentalists don't like it, well, fuck 'em!
And fuck the peace punks, too! What the fuck is a "peace punk?"
That's a contradiction in terms
And fuck the feminists too
What are feminists?
They just want to be men
If they have penis envy then that's their problem