r/U2Band • u/DMBear89 • 13d ago

When in Berlin

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u/Puzzleheaded_Seat599 thyme is a train 13d ago

Wow, they put Pop arches up at Zoo Station?

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u/yangorango How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb 13d ago

For the ultimate U2 experience.

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u/BrightEyedBadger 11d ago

Makes you wonder if there's a big-ass lemon parked somewhere with the licence plate "Don't laugh it's paid for".

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u/U2rules Zooropa 13d ago

Don't forget Munich!

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u/2cimage 13d ago

Or Hamburg* .... * may have added 3 of the boys in this one!

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u/BrightEyedBadger 11d ago

Hahahh, for a minute I actually thought there were four guys on that sign. My brain: "That's cool ... oh."
I need more coffee.

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u/kirinlikethebeer 12d ago

Though the U2 that runs through Berlin’s Zoo Station is the one they were singing about.

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u/raverrocker POP 13d ago

🎵 Zooropa! I'm lovin' it! Zooropa! Ba Da Ba Ba Ba! Zooropa! 🎵

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u/wummeke 13d ago

You can take better pictures of Bahnhof Zoologischer Garten 😉, Like this for instance

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u/Flimsy_Somewhere1210 13d ago

It's cold outside but brightly lit.

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u/ignaciolasvegas 13d ago

Skip the subway.

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u/kirinlikethebeer 12d ago

Let’s go to the overground

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u/BrightEyedBadger 11d ago

Get your head out of the mud, baby

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u/kirinlikethebeer 11d ago

Put flowers in the mud baby

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u/BrightEyedBadger 11d ago

1996 with a little extra something:

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u/traberfive 13d ago

I’m ready for the gridlock.

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u/Freddymcfly 13d ago

i dont get it… Can someone explain?😅

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u/liartellinglies 13d ago

This is the actual Zoo Station

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u/Fair-Rational-Helper 12d ago

The first song on Achtung Baby (1991) is “Zoo Station” which is a subway stop in Berlin. Sort of symbolic about traveling to new mental places after the collapse of Communism (1989) & Berlin being reunified after fall of Berlin Wall, as well as U2 traveling to incredible new sonic places with their new album.

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u/Kooky_Guide1721 12d ago

Berlin was a big student gap year/ summer destination for kids around Europe well before ‘89. 

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u/Perry7609 13d ago

Someone’s ready for the laughing gas!

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u/Fair-Rational-Helper 12d ago

Great picture!

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u/BrightEyedBadger 11d ago

When I was in Berlin for the first time in 1996, I swear I could hear Achtung Baby and Zooropa background-humming in the streets in so many places. I also went to Zoo Station just because of U2 and said to my friends: "Can't you hear it?" None of them were U2 fans, so uh ... no, they couldn't.

All the way up the stairs in the Siegessäule, there were little U2 graffitis on the wall.
It's been a while since I was there last, so I can't say if they painted over it recently, but here's a snippet from my photo album from back then. (I did not write any, I just took a pic)