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"Zoo Station" is a song by rock band U2. It is the opening track from their 1991 album Achtung Baby. As the opening track, "Zoo Station" announces the band's musical reinvention and gives the listener an introduction to the band's new sound. The song features industrial-influenced percussion and several layers of distorted guitars and vocals, along with lyrics suggesting new intents and anticipations. The song's distinctive introduction, which features an "explosion" of percussion and the song's hook, a descending glissando played on guitar, was meant to make the listener think the album was mistakenly not U2's latest record or that their music player was broken.
During the Zoo TV Tour, "Zoo Station" opened every concert except for one. The song title refers to the Bahnhof Zoo (the official name is Berlin Zoologischer Garten) station in Berlin. Coincidentally, the station has been on the U2 line of the Berlin metro since 1993; however, at the time the song was recorded this part of the Berlin metro was served by the U1 line. The song received positive reviews from critics.
Writing and recording
After troublesome recording sessions at Hansa Studios in Berlin in late 1990, U2 returned to Dublin in 1991 for the second phase of the recording sessions for Achtung Baby. One song, later released as the B-side "Lady With the Spinning Head", proved troublesome, but it would inspire portions of three separate songs, "Zoo Station" being one of them, and "Ultraviolet (Light My Way)" and "The Fly" the other two. The band ultimately decided to take "Zoo Station" in a more industrial direction than "Lady With the Spinning Head".
We're at a point where production has gotten so slick that people don't trust it anymore... We were starting to lose trust in the conventional sound or rock & roll - the conventional sound of the guitar, in particular - and, you know, those big reverb-laden drum sounds of the 80s or those big, beautiful, pristine vocal sounds with all this lush ambience and reverb. So we found ourselves searching for other sounds that had more life and more freshness.
—The Edge, explaining the band's motivation for seeking a new sound
"Zoo Station" came together near the end of the recording sessions when producer Flood was mixing the song and introduced heavy distortion to the drums. The song's direction was largely influenced by the production team of Daniel Lanois, Brian Eno, and Flood. Lead vocalist Bono had been disappointed with his vocal performances in early recording sessions for the album and told the production team, "Let's just try something that's gonna put me in a completely different place". After they distorted his voice to make it sound as if it were coming from a megaphone, Bono was inspired to sing in a persona, as the effect gave his vocals a different "emotional feel".
The song's lyrics were originally inspired by a story that Bono heard of Berlin during World War II, in which animals escaped the city's zoo after it was damaged in overnight bombing. Rhinoceri, pelicans and flamingoes wandered around the next morning while people were sifting through the rubble. Bono was also influenced when he learned of a subway station in Berlin called Zoo Station, since it stopped at the zoo. He compared the song to the actual subway station, saying "it was written as an opening track, the beasts breaking out of their cages." Bono took further inspiration from the subway station representing Europe at a crossroads, as people of many different walks of life had descended upon a reunified Berlin after the Berlin Wall was opened in 1989.
"Zoo Station" is a song by rock band U2. It is the opening track from their 1991 album Achtung Baby. As the opening track, "Zoo Station" announces the band's musical reinvention and gives the listener an introduction to the band's new sound. The song features industrial-influenced percussion and several layers of distorted guitars and vocals, along with lyrics suggesting new intents and anticipations. The song's distinctive introduction, which features an "explosion" of percussion and the song's hook, a descending glissando played on guitar, was meant to make the listener think the album was mistakenly not U2's latest record or that their music player was broken.
During the Zoo TV Tour, "Zoo Station" opened every concert except for one. The song title refers to the Bahnhof Zoo (the official name is Berlin Zoologischer Garten) station in Berlin. Coincidentally, the station has been on the U2 line of the Berlin metro since 1993; however, at the time the song was recorded this part of the Berlin metro was served by the U1 line. The song received positive reviews from critics.
Writing and recording
After troublesome recording sessions at Hansa Studios in Berlin in late 1990, U2 returned to Dublin in 1991 for the second phase of the recording sessions for Achtung Baby. One song, later released as the B-side "Lady With the Spinning Head", proved troublesome, but it would inspire portions of three separate songs, "Zoo Station" being one of them, and "Ultraviolet (Light My Way)" and "The Fly" the other two. The band ultimately decided to take "Zoo Station" in a more industrial direction than "Lady With the Spinning Head".
We're at a point where production has gotten so slick that people don't trust it anymore... We were starting to lose trust in the conventional sound or rock & roll - the conventional sound of the guitar, in particular - and, you know, those big reverb-laden drum sounds of the 80s or those big, beautiful, pristine vocal sounds with all this lush ambience and reverb. So we found ourselves searching for other sounds that had more life and more freshness.
—The Edge, explaining the band's motivation for seeking a new sound
"Zoo Station" came together near the end of the recording sessions when producer Flood was mixing the song and introduced heavy distortion to the drums. The song's direction was largely influenced by the production team of Daniel Lanois, Brian Eno, and Flood. Lead vocalist Bono had been disappointed with his vocal performances in early recording sessions for the album and told the production team, "Let's just try something that's gonna put me in a completely different place". After they distorted his voice to make it sound as if it were coming from a megaphone, Bono was inspired to sing in a persona, as the effect gave his vocals a different "emotional feel".
The song's lyrics were originally inspired by a story that Bono heard of Berlin during World War II, in which animals escaped the city's zoo after it was damaged in overnight bombing. Rhinoceri, pelicans and flamingoes wandered around the next morning while people were sifting through the rubble. Bono was also influenced when he learned of a subway station in Berlin called Zoo Station, since it stopped at the zoo. He compared the song to the actual subway station, saying "it was written as an opening track, the beasts breaking out of their cages." Bono took further inspiration from the subway station representing Europe at a crossroads, as people of many different walks of life had descended upon a reunified Berlin after the Berlin Wall was opened in 1989.
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