1,493
edits
Changes
→"Crystal Japan" resemblance: Added interview
==="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====
Trent himself recognised the accidental musical similarity in an interview with David Bowie:[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0RQCT69y5s&feature=player_embedded]
:Trent himself recognised Reznor: There was one point when we were doing the accidental musical similarity in an interview 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! :Trent Reznor: So I played it for a couple other people and said "I think this is something off ''Low'', this just sounds familiar.. [http://www.youtubeI don't know what it is.com/watch?v=y0RQCT69y5s" So we did it, record's out, &feature=player_embedded]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''.
===Song Credits===