"We learnt everything from the Wipers," Kurt told an English fanzine in 1990. "They were playing a mixture of punk and hard rock at a time when nobody cared." Indeed, it's pretty easy to hear Nirvana's power-chords-by-a-power-trio roots in this dark tune originally off of the seminal Portland punks' 1980 LP Is this Real? . As future In Utero producer Steve Albini wrote in Forced Exposure in 1987, "The Wipers' music is so simple, but so cool, it makes you wonder why anybody thinks doing stuff with tricks is a valid approach at all."

Tuning: standard

Equipment used: Fender Kurt Cobain Jaguar, Boss DS-1 and Fender Mustang IV amp.

Lyrics: Straight as an arrow
Defect defect
Not straight, not so straight
Reject reject
Towards anti-social
Solo solo
Standing on the stairs
Cold, cold morning
Ghostly image of fear
Mayday mayday
Gonna leave this region
They'll take me with them

Dimension seven [Alt: Dementia Seven]

Straight as an arrow
Defect defect
Not straight, not so straight
Reject reject
Towards anti-social
Solo solo [Alt: So dumb, so dumb]

Dimension seven [x7]

Nirvana D7 guitar cover

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