"So What" is the first track on the 1959 Miles Davis album Kind of Blue and is often credited as one of his best works.
It is one of the most well-known examples of modal jazz, set in the Dorian mode and consisting of 16 bars of D minor 7 , followed by eight bars of Eb minor 7 and another eight of D minor 7 . This AABA structure puts it in the format of popular song structure.
The piano and bass introduction for the piece was written by Gil Evans for Bill Evans and Paul Chambers on Kind of Blue. An orchestrated version by Gil Evans of this introduction is later to be found on a television broadcast given by Miles' Quintet (minus Cannonball Adderley who was ill that day) and the Gil Evans Orchestra; the orchestra gave the introduction after which the quintet produced a rendition of the rest of "So What".
The distinctive voicing employed by Bill Evans for the chords that interject the head, from the bottom up three perfect fourths followed by a major third, has been given the name "So What chord" by such theorists as Mark Levine.
While the track is taken at a very moderate tempo on Kind Of Blue, it is played at an extremely fast tempo on later live recordings by the Quintet, such as Four and More.
The same chord structure was later used by John Coltrane for his standard "Impressions".
"So What" is the first single from Field Mob's third album, Light Poles and Pine Trees, featuring multi-platinum recording artist, Ciara. The single peaked at #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart making it Field Mob's first Top 10 single and Ciara's sixth.
"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 blank">http://www.antinowhereleague.com/history.html. 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.
