[[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====
Trent Reznor himself recognised the accidental musical similarity in an interview with David Bowie:[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0RQCT69y5s&feature=player_embedded]
:<blockquote>'''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."'
:'''David Bowie''': It's from a gin advert I did in Japan!<br>:'''Trent 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, & 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>
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