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[[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.

Trent Reznor himself recognised the accidental musical similarity in an interview with David Bowie:[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0RQCT69y5s&feature=player_embedded] :Trent Reznor: There 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 really good," and I said "that's gotta be somebody else's song."

<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>

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]