re: You're 18-25 - prime partying age - what era do you choose? 60s/70s/80s/90s?

not picking nits, but for our generation, I think the prime partying age was 16-21.

I was the club DJ in the eighties

IT WAS FUN

I touched a lot of boobies

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I think you are more remembering the late 70s and early 80s. Yes, weed was a concerts, etc. But it was very down low. It wasn't everywhere like now, out in public. It wasn't accepted at all by anyone very adult or mainstream like now. The age you were during most of the 70s, you really wouldn't remember weed, I don't think. Weed also was less strong then and less likely to have had anything added to it.

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I think it was actually more widespread back then, folks were just smarter about it. Obviously it is getting pretty widespread now due to not be illegal in some states.

70’s without hesitation

I did it in the 90s.

Did a lot of stupid shite.

Still doing a lot of stupid shite minus the narcotics (and booze)

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Everybody loves to hate on disco now (except me). But as someone who turned 18 in 1979, it was really, really fun! Clubs were packed

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I was on the tail end of disco and the beginning of raves becoming a thing.

Discos were just raves that started earlier with better smelling people.

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1980's: Pros: Cocaine. Cons: AIDS. I was just a kid, but I could imagine the nightlife in big cities like Miami, L.A., Dallas, New Orleans, Nashville, was really, really fun.

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Reading your post and went into memory lane a bit, here's what stood out for me after 35+ years:

I was 16-17 y.o. during the late 80's and living in Miami. There's some truth to the party scene and wild party animals there during that time period. I saw some crazy sh!t during that time. A few that I can remember:

1) my best friend at the time was house sitting his neighbor's next door apartment, One time I was hanging out at his place and he told me, let's go next door, neighbor left me his keys. We walked in there and went to his bedroom, started looking inside his drawers and saw about a dozen small bags in rounded shape to what appeared to be coke. The dude stored it there like it was candy.

2) on a late Friday night walking along Coconut Grove bar scene, the mayor at the time Xavier Suarez is drunk as a skunk and is walking with a younger hot girl and is trying to impress her and tells her "check this out". As I was just passing by, I made eye contact with him as I obviously knew who he was and suddenly hands me his wallet and told me that I could have it. I grabbed it, ran across the street and waved goodbye. I was joking along as I came back and returned it to him.

3) after school I was walking home and at an apartment complex, I saw police cars everywhere. I peeked through the property line bushes and saw a dead man sitting on the driver's seat with a bullet wound to his face. It looked surreal, like a movie scene.

4) then as I got a bit older, I saw the crazy sh!t you see when people get crazy drunk at night. Drugs at nightclubs, sex in the restroom stalls, fist fights at bars, etc.

I often go out at night on weekends and everything seems so mellow nowadays, lol.

I'd choose the 90s all over again.

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This is probably the answer. 1967-1977. Boomers will never know how great they had it.

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Other than Vietnam that would have been the obvious choice....Vietnam was a pretty big buzz kill and for way too many it killed more than a buzz....

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If you could dance, you had it made. I was a good swing dancer so I adapted it to disco.

Of course, if you couldn't dance, you could always be the guy with blow.

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even if you hated disco that's where the high quality/quantity trim was, you had to incorporate some facet of it into your game