Reflections Of A Boomer

[Floyd R. Turbo]

[Faux pas]

1. ...

Boy, didn't we tho!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

6. 😁

[dchill]

2. That means more than it means.

👍

[Floyd R. Turbo]

7. 🤗

[intrepidity]

3. ...and I still haven't found what I'm lookin' for. nt

[FalloutShelter]

4. Chef's kiss 💋

[Floyd R. Turbo]

8. 🤔

[GreenWave]

5. +1

[Floyd R. Turbo]

9. ☺️

[Atticus]

10. I bet you think that song is about you, don't you? nt

[Floyd R. Turbo]

11. 🤫

[intrepidity]

12. You're sooooooooo vain! nt

[BOSSHOG]

45. I probably think this song is about me

[Sky Jewels]

13. I will now post the Gen X Reflection:

I found it hard, was hard to find
Oh well, whatever, nevermind

[Floyd R. Turbo]

14. 🤭

[NullTuples]

36. I almost didn't bother clicking, because...whatever (signed, a Gen-X)

But as someone who discovered music late thanks to a very strict Christian childhood, I understood and appreciated (as much as a non-Baby Boomer can) the references in the OP. (Hobbies of mine include computing and LGBTQ history, both of which had significant intersection with 60's & early/mid 70's counterculture)

[Sky Jewels]

37. Yes, I'm an old Gen Xer (missed being a Boomer by a year)

and I appreciate and am familiar with all the Boomer song references. They remind me of my childhood. But as a teen/20-something I was into stuff like REM, the Smiths, the Cure, Elvis Costello, New Order, Echo & the Bunnymen, Talking Heads, Jesus and Mary Chain, the English Beat, Joy Division, World Party, Pretenders, Prince, Replacements, Violent Femmes, Stone Roses, the Cars, the Church, B-52s, XTC, Psychedelic Furs, etc.

[ProfessorGAC]

53. I'm A Boomer, And Most Of Your Band List...

...mirrors mine.
That whole 80s scene/early MTV period.was very important.
There are still 70s bands very important to me, but 2 of my 3 favorite bands ever were The Cars & The Fixx.

[NullTuples]

56. Yes - New Wave / "Modern Rock"!

I feel privileged to have grown up in the SF Bay Area where I was at least exposed to it, even if I couldn't listen at home (until I discovered headphones and stations like KQAK & "Live 105&quot . To add to your list: Bronsky Beat, Yaz/Yazoo, Depeche Mode, Culture Club, Tears for Fears, Thomas Dolby, Thompson Twins, Howard Jones, The Waitresses, Four Non Blonds, etc...plus all those bands that sorta crossed from late Boomer to early Gen-X successfully and revitalized their careers!

So many of the lines in the OP flashed me back to the early 70's when I'd hear certain of them always in the same places...

[Sky Jewels]

57. Oh heck yeah! I was a Bay Area girl and listened to the same stations and music.

I even remember the name of one of the DJs on "The Quake" ... Tim Bedore. He was/is a comedian as well and used to joke about how people thought his name was "Timba Door." ... And the excellent And Steve Masters on Live 105. Good music, good times...

[NullTuples]

62. Until today I thought it was "Tim the Door" as some sort of dorky stage/DJ name.

I'd be mildly embarrassed but...it was so long ago and rarely did I listen with good reception.

I never understood how Alex Bennett kept his morning "showgram" but it was as though the very oddity of it was what made it fit in. Whoever managed the guest list though...they did an amazing job.

I did a quick search and *of course* there are multi-hour audio-only videos on YouTube of Bay Area radio including KITS & TheQuake. Because throwing a 90-minute tape in our all-in-one radio-record player-tape deck and hitting "record" is what we did back then.

[Sky Jewels]

71. Yes, Alex Bennett was a unique voice, to be sure.

That's funny about Tim the Door.

Good memories.

It's weird to think how we were mostly at the mercy of radio to expose us to new music back then. Or sometimes I'd go into Rasputin's Records in Berkeley, or maybe a Tower Records. I didn't know about the Smiths until about 1984, when my hipster friend let me borrow an album. I heard "How Soon Is Now" and my jaw dropped. I'd never heard anything like it before or since. That is still my favorite song of all time.

[NullTuples]

73. Tower Records...

I remember racing across the city in a company vehicle at the start of my lunch when (whoever the lunchtime DJ was on Live105) announced at 11 am that Alison Moyet (of Yaz fame w/ Vince Clarke) was going to do an otherwise unannounced lunch performance at the Tower on Bay & Columbus. I miss her music sometimes.

[Sky Jewels]

74. Alison Moyet -- What a voice!

I miss Tower Records too. I remember going to that particular one when I lived in SF in the late 80s-early 90s.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

58. I don't buy the "missed by a year" thing

Some say the Boomer generation ends in '62 and some go to '65. I think it's partly a state of mind and partly depends on the age of your parents and a little bit on geography. I'm going to guess I'm the same age as you, but my tastes in music are far more 60s-mid 70s than the tastes of the other half my high school classmates, who liked most of the groups that you referenced.

[Sky Jewels]

59. Yeah, generations are kind of silly constructs, I agree.

It was funny, though, my sister is technically a Boomer (most definitions I've seen say '64 was the last Boomer year) and I'm technically an old Gen Xer. Even though there were only three years between us, she and her cohort were more into the 70s music (now often called Classic Rock, ugh) and I remember her telling me that my music was "weird." She likes it now, though. And I like/d the Stones et al as much as the next person, but, jeez, how many times in one lifetime can I hear "Satisfaction"?

[Algernon Moncrieff]

67. I was born after you. I consider myself an end-stage Boomer

I'm pretty much a Led Zeppelin/Steely Dan/Bob Seger/Eagles/Beatles/David Bowie/Billy Joel kind of guy with a soft spot for Motown and the "Philadelphia Sound" of 70s R & B/Soul/Funk -- whatever you want to call it. I didn't like much of the "New Wave" when it was happening, although some of it has grown on me. No decade is all good or all bad, but the 80s may be my least favorite decade musically.

[Unwind Your Mind]

68. I read an article once about how there's really a generation in between

It was defined as those who were too young to be at risk of being drafted.

I think this theory cut off boomers at 1958. My husband and his friends born around 1961 don’t consider themselves to be boomers, really

Oh and add Oingo Boingo from this Bay Area Gen Xer 😊

[Sky Jewels]

69. Generation Jones, as some call it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones

Generation Jones is the social cohort of the latter half of the Baby boomer generation to the first years of Generation X. The term Generation Jones was first coined by the cultural commentator Jonathan Pontell, who identified the cohort as those born from 1954 to 1965 in the U.S., who were children during Watergate, the oil crisis, and stagflation rather than during the 1950s, but slightly before Gen X.

Unlike "leading-edge boomers", most of Generation Jones did not grow up with World War II veterans as fathers, and, as they reached adulthood, there was no compulsory military service and no defining political cause, as opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War was for the older boomers. Their parents' generation was sandwiched between the Greatest Generation and the Baby Boomers. Also, by 1955, a majority of U.S. households had at least one television set, and so unlike Leading-Edge Boomers born in the 1940s, many members of Generation Jones (trailing-edge boomers) have never lived in a world without television—similar to how many members of Generation Z (1997—2012) have never lived in a world without personal computers or the internet,or mobile phones.[14] Generation Jones were children during the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s and were young adults when HIV became a threat.[citation needed]

[Algernon Moncrieff]

72. I am familiar

I went to a well-known Bay Area university.

One roommate was big into Oingo Boingo, Art of Noise - a lot of the mid-80s pop/New Wave sound
One roommate (who has passed on and who I miss a lot) was into the Dead Kennedys, Tears for Fears, U2, etc.
One roommate was into Christian Rock and Dr. Demento
The first roommate was a hard-core Grateful Dead-head. I left that arrangement when he started keeping cocaine in the room.

That is an interesting theory. I might tweak that cutoff downward slightly to '56 or '57, but you are right - it is an interesting distinction: there were Boomers who were eligible to go to Vietnam and there were those that were not.

The last draft call was on December 7, 1972, and the authority to induct expired on June 30, 1973. The date of the last drawing for the lottery was on March 12, 1975. Registration with the Selective Service System was suspended on April 1, 1975, and registrant processing was suspended on January 27, 1976.

[Sky Jewels]

70. We do have a lot of musical taste overlap.

Bowie--damn! Love that guy forever and ever! Was a yuuuuuuge Beatles fan as a kid/teen, and still love them, especially George Harrison. A big thumbs-up for Steely Dan. I have seen them as a band and also Donald Fagan solo in concert (remember when the big joke was that you saw Steely Dan "on tour"? ... and then in later years they actually toured). I've saw the Eagles and Billy Joel in concert, in the early 80s, although I can't say I listen to them anymore. (I saw Elton John then, too, and still like his old stuff, like Bennie & the Jets.) Bob Seger ... meh, TBH. I've always listened to Motown and also enjoy funk and R&B--I saw Earth, Wind & Fire in concert, for example.

I also love all sorts of new music and my husband and I have been to a lot of concerts where we're among the oldest or the oldest in the venue. We prefer small venues, which means seeing bands either on their way up or on their way down.

Anyway, I've never been one of those people who says: "They stopped making good music back in [insert year you were about 25]!"

[windje]

15. This is the end, beautiful friend. n/t

[Floyd R. Turbo]

16. 🥺

[republianmushroom]

17. Enjoyed thank you

[Floyd R. Turbo]

18. ☺️

[markodochartaigh]

19. "Just one more year and then you'd be happy... "

"He's got this dream about buying some land..."

[Floyd R. Turbo]

21. 😊

[Ptah]

20. Yes, but are you experienced?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

22. 😁

[DBoon]

41. I see "you'll never hear surf music again"

[highplainsdem]

23. Forever young...

[Floyd R. Turbo]

26. 😃

[sarge43]

24. I was eight miles high and saw the flower girl. n/t

[Floyd R. Turbo]

27. 😎

[KS Toronado]

25. Wish he would have mentioned Luckenbach Texas

I was there once.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

28. 🤗

[keithbvadu2]

29. That goes out to my email list... Mostly us old farts.

That goes out to my email list... Mostly us old farts.

Thanks.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

30. ☺️

[nevergiveup]

31. I drove my Chevy to the levee (Mississippi River)

so many times I can not count. Thank you so much for this.

[markodochartaigh]

42. I guess that it is time to break out the whiskey and rye

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/15/weather/mississippi-river-low-water-tower-rock-climate/index.html

[nevergiveup]

61. I have not been back home for many years

but knew the river was really low. That photo tells it all. Thanks so much for the link.

[Ferrets are Cool]

32. I've been Close to the Edge and stood in awe in the Court of the Crimson King...

I've sat Down by the River, and Wanted to Teach the World to Sing.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

34. ☺️

[MiHale]

33. 'Coo coo ka choo'...that's all

[Floyd R. Turbo]

35. 😁

[Hekate]

38. But the loveliest of all was the Unicorn

We’ve got flash flood warnings up and down the Coast — no kidding — and all these musical memories are bringing tears to my eyes.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

47. 🥺

[UTUSN]

39. "Excellent" is all I can say since I'm not lyrically proficient.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

48. ☺️

[lpbk2713]

40. Woke up. Got out of bed. Dragged a comb across my head.

Crossed a bridge over troubled water.
While I was busted flat in Baton Rouge.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

49. 🤗

[DBoon]

43. I'm just a singer in a rock and roll band

Thick as a brick

[Floyd R. Turbo]

50. ☺️

[BOSSHOG]

44. Scuse me while I Kiss the Sky

And dance with wild fire woman while living for the music

[Floyd R. Turbo]

51. 😊

[Sky Jewels]

60. Before you kiss this guy, please first get consent.

Thank you.

[BOSSHOG]

46. Go ask Alice when she's ten feet tall

[Floyd R. Turbo]

52. 😎

[cksmithy]

54. Thanks for posting this.

These lyrics are some of the poetry of my life and of the times.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

63. ☺️

[BOSSHOG]

55. Question about a boomer song lyric

In Saturday Nights alright for fighting it is stated:

Whose best friend floats in the bottom of a glass

Can anything “float” in “the bottom of a glass”

Is this a Bernie Taupin artistic license or just another mystery of the universe which will be contemplated by great, great, great grandchildren of boomers when they discover the stash of old albums with the lyrics printed inside. Or is this reason for another Woodstock?

I’m pushing 70 and an old friend asked me if I would like to be 18 again. I said, yes. When I was 18 not today. Gimme Shelter!!!!

Damn I’m having fun with this.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

64. 😁

[Trueblue1968]

65. LOVE THIS .... SHARED ON FACEBOOK !!!!!!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

66. 😃