although the band had become inactive, cobain continued passing around the fecal matter demo tape to friends and peers. his acquaintance krist novoselic, with whom cobain had briefly jammed previously and had wanted to collaborate for some time, heard the tape and particularly liked the song "spank thru". the two agreed to form a band, which eventually became nirvana. they began rehearsals later in 1986 for the new project, and reused the fecal matter songs "downer", "anorexorcist", and "spank thru".