I think the best thing about being a boomer is our music.

[raccoon]

We had the most kick-butt music, the most terrific bands, the most talented songwriters and musicians of any generation of recent memory.

I guess it sort of makes up for the downside of being a boomer...having to share a room with siblings, harder to get into college because of numbers, harder to get a job because of numbers, Vietnam and the draft, growing up with a good economy but living with a sucky economy and high inflation as adults (1970's)...

[CBHagman]

1. I enjoyed the music but...

...would have to say I have an honest disagreement with you on songwriters and even what the best of being a boomer was.

Songwriters: A great many of those we enjoyed in the classic rock, folk, and Motown era were born well before the boom.

And as for ultimate songwriting talent, I think of those of a much earlier era -- the Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart, Dorothy Fields, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, et al.

And as for the best of being a boomer, I must say in retrospect that it was great to go everywhere on foot and by bike, to have Halloween, the Memorial Day parade, etc., etc.; to watch local kiddie programs on the weekdays and cartoons on Saturday, to see The Wizard of Oz and The March of the Wooden Soldiers on TV once a year and only once a year, because that's the way it was done.

It wasn't a perfect world or even a perfectly safe world, but it had its simple pleasures.

[Tikki]

2. And with it all (the mid 50's>)...somehow I got trapped in...

the late 70's, bit into the 80's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwL2lLlEMNQ
"Down on the Boulevard"....The Pop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91rAHIb8BwY
"New Rose".....The Damned

Tikki

[BrendaBrick]

3. I'm just on the tail-end of being a boomer.....

Late 1970's music across the board. Disco, R&B, Funk, Rock - shoot - I can remember a time back in high school where the word of the day was....."Have you heard Led Zeppelin's NEW album?...as all of us skipped a class or two in high school and packed ourselves into someone's black-light, poster clad, shag-carpeted van and just out and out chilled!)

Good times - BACK when music in general didn't have to fit in 'some category' like it does today ~