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}}'''"A Warm Place"''' is the tenth track on ''[[The Downward Spiral (halo)|The Downward Spiral]].''
The song bears some resemblance to "Crystal Japan" by [[David Bowie]] and "Tanz Der China Dolls" by The Legendary Pink Dots.
==="Crystal Japan" resemblance===
[[Trent Reznor]] has been accused of ripping off the theme of "A Warm Place" from [[David Bowie]]'s 1980 single "Crystal Japan". He did state that Bowie's album ''Low'' (1977) had the biggest influence in the making of ''The Downward Spiral,''[http://9inchnails.com/articles/articles.php?id=7] though ''Low'' does not contain "Crystal Japan." Some have claimed that what is heard is deceiving; that from a musical theory point of view, there exist significant differences between the structures of the two melodies.
====David Bowie Interview====
<blockquote>'''Reznor''':David Bowie: ItThere was one point when we were doing the record that I came up with this melody and I thought, "this is really good," and that I couldn't have written it myself. So I played it for [[Flood]] and he said "that's from a gin advert really good," and I did in Japan!said "that's gotta be somebody else's song."
'''Bowie''':Trent It's from a gin advert I did in Japan!<br>'''Reznor''': So I played it for a couple other people and said , "I think this is something off ''Low'', this just sounds familiar...I don't know what it is." So we did it, record's out, & and one day I was talking on the phone and I got ''Scary Monsters'', which came out on Rykodisc finally. And so I put that on and it's got bonus tracks at the end. And I'm listening and this song comes on that, to my horror, it's the same...''"Crystal Japan''."</blockquote>
===Song Credits===
"A Warm Place" made its live debut on [[2009/08/23 New York, NY|August 23, 2009]], at Webster Hall in New York City. Much of the song's live incarnation consists of pre-recorded samples, such as the constant tremolo guitar that runs throughout, while the band members man keyboards to recreate some of the other melodies. The song was also performed at the Hollywood Palladium nine days later on [[2009/09/02 Los Angeles, CA|September 2, 2009]].
The song was performed in a special remixed version during the [[Tension NIN 2013 Tour-2014]]touring cycle. [[Alessandro Cortini]] confirmed the unnamed live remix on twitter. More soft and synthetic, it was played with nobody on stage except sometimes Cortini. This was done in a similar way again during the [[Cold And Black And Infinite Tour]], with [[Atticus Ross]] also playing.
==Sample==
A barely audible message is heard layered under the track in the very beginning of the song (repeating approximately 6 times.) The words were long rumored to be "the best thing about life is knowing you put it together" but this has been resigned to little more than an urban legend.A user on SoundCloud isolated and filtered the portion of the song in question, and while the speech still can't be made out, it's clear that the line mentioned above is incorrect.[https://soundcloud.com/user-838359530/a-warm-place-tds-nin-d26-clip]
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