"Zoo Station"
Song by U2
From the album Achtung Baby
Album released	19 November 1991
Recorded
Genre	Rock
Song Length	4:36
Record label	Island Records
Producer	Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois
Achtung Baby Album Listing
(beginning of album)	Zoo Station (Track 1)	Even Better Than the Real Thing (Track 2)

"Zoo Station" is the opening track from the U2 album Achtung Baby. It also opened all concerts in the Zoo TV Tour. It is noted for being one of the first U2 songs with an Electronic Music feel, including distorted vocals and guitars. It refers to the Bahnhof Zoo (the official name is Berlin Zoologischer Garten) station on the U2 line of the Berlin U-Bahn and Berlin S-Bahn. Cover of the U2 album Achtung Baby. ... U2 are an Irish rock band featuring Bono (Paul David Hewson) on vocals, guitar and harmonica, The Edge (David Howell Evans) on guitar, keyboards and vocals, Adam Clayton on bass guitar, and Larry Mullen, Jr. ... Achtung Baby is an album by Irish rock band U2, released on November 19, 1991 (see 1991 in music). ... November 19 is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Musical genres are categories which contain music which share a certain style or which have certain elements in common. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Island Records is a record label that was founded in Jamaica in 1959 by Chris Blackwell. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the performers, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... Brian Eno in 1977 Brian Peter George St. ... Daniel Lanois on guitar Daniel Lanois (born September 19, 1951 in Hull, Québec) is a Canadian record producer and singer-songwriter. ... Achtung Baby is an album by Irish rock band U2, released on November 19, 1991 (see 1991 in music). ... A Song Infobox has been requested for this article. ... U2 are an Irish rock band featuring Bono (Paul David Hewson) on vocals, guitar and harmonica, The Edge (David Howell Evans) on guitar, keyboards and vocals, Adam Clayton on bass guitar, and Larry Mullen, Jr. ... Achtung Baby is an album by Irish rock band U2, released on November 19, 1991 (see 1991 in music). ... Zoo TV was a massive, elaborate, innovative, postmodern, multifaceted and multimedia, and very commercially successful world concert tour by the rock band U2 that took place in arenas and stadiums during 1992 and 1993. ... Electronic music is a term for music created using electronic devices. ... The Bahnhof Zoo in 2004 The Bahnhof Zoo (the official name is Berlin Zoologischer Garten) was the central transport facility in West Berlin during the citys political division and is still the main station for the western central area of Berlin. ... U2 is a line on the Berlin U-Bahn Pankow (S2) (S8) Vinetastraße Schönhauser Allee (S4x) (S8) Eberswalder Straße Senefelderplatz Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Alexanderplatz (U5) (U8) (S5) (S7) (S75) (S9) (DB) Klosterstraße Märkisches Museum Spittelmarkt Hausvogteiplatz Stadtmitte (U6) Mohrenstraße Wikimedia Commons has more media... The Oberbaumbrücke on the U1. ... The Berlin S-Bahn is a metro system operated by S-Bahn Berlin GmbH, a subsidiary of the Deutsche Bahn. ...

Within the lyrics, the station is a metaphor for time itself:

Time is a train
Makes the future the past
Leaves you standing at the station
Your face pressed up against the glass.

The mood of the song is optimistic and hopeful about the future, reflecting of the mood in Berlin (and around the world) in the early 1990s, after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of Communist regimes in the Soviet bloc. This mood is also reflected in other songs of the same time period, such as Jesus Jones Right Here, Right Now and The Scorpions Wind of Change. For other uses, see Berlin (disambiguation). ... This article is about the year. ... East German construction workers building the Berlin Wall, 1961-11-20 In the last phase of the wall´s development, the death strip between fence and concrete wall gave guards a clear shot at hundreds of would-be escapees from the East. ... Communism - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ... During the Cold War, the Eastern Bloc (or Soviet Bloc) comprised the following Central and Eastern European countries: Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Poland, Albania (until the early 1960s, see below), the Soviet Union, and Czechoslovakia. ... Jesus Jones is a British London-based rock group that performed and recorded in the late 1980s, throughout the 1990s, and into the 2000s. ... The Scorpions were a beat goup, originally from Manchester in Engeland, but they have become popular notably in the Netherlands. ... For British Prime Minister Harold Macmillans 1960 speech on Africa see Wind of Change (speech) Wind of Change is a 1990 song by the German band Scorpions. ...