Far Out Magazine revisits long-standing claims that Nirvana borrowed heavily from Portland punk band Wipers, focusing on the similarities between Wipers' 1980 track "Potential Suicide" and Nirvana's "Breed" from Nevermind. The piece situates this within Kurt Cobain's well-documented range of influences, arguing that while musical borrowing is common, the resemblance in this case is unusually direct, raising the question of homage versus imitation.

The article notes that "Potential Suicide" featured on Wipers' 1980 album Is This Real?, and that its bassline closely echoes the guitar riff on "Breed", albeit sped up and reworked into a heavier grunge style. It also points out that Nirvana recorded direct covers of two other Wipers songs from the same album, "D-7" and "Return of the Rat", lending weight to the idea of a deliberate connection rather than coincidence. The author frames this as one example among several formative influences on Nirvana's sound, alongside acts like Melvins and The Vaselines.