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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====
Reznor himself recognised the accidental musical similarity in an interview with David Bowie:[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0RQCT69y5s&feature=player_embedded]
==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]
==External Links==