D-7

"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." JOE GROSS

[Refrain] Straight as an arrow Defect, defect Not straight, not so straight Reject, reject Towards anti-social So low, so low [Pre-Chorus] Standing on the stairs Cold, cold morning Ghostly image of fear Mayday, mayday Gonna leave this region They'll take me with them [Chorus] Dimension seven [Refrain] Straight as an arrow Defect, defect Not straight, not so straight Reject, reject Towards anti-social So dumb, so dumb [Pre-Chorus] Standing on the stairs Cold, cold morning Ghostly image of fear Mayday, mayday Gonna leave this region They'll take me with them [Chorus] Dimension seven [Guitar Solo] [Refrain] Straight as an arrow Defect, defect Not straight, not so straight Reject, reject Towards anti-social So dumb, so dumb [Chorus] Dimension seven Dimension seven Dimension seven Dimension seven Dimension seven Dimension seven Dimension seven