This is often credited as being the first ever Nirvana song. It appears on several early demos, including the infamous "Fecal matter demo" which Kurt Cobain made with friend Dale Crover in 1985. The only released version is the live version off the Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah album. The song itself appears to be about masturbation.
Jack Endino produced the demo of this song that made its way to Sub Pop Records owners Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman. Pavitt was not impressed when he heard it. In our 2013 interview, he recalled listening to the song with Mark Arm of Mudhoney. "We thought the arrangements over a lot of tracks were a little too busy," he said. "The track 'Spank Thru' has a lot of different changes. And the band, as they evolved, became more minimalist and hypnotic and that's where a lot of their power came from. So their songwriting really kept getting better and their stage performances kept getting better."
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