80's High

The Bargain - "80's High" Album

The Bargain crash onto the scene with their debut album “80’s High”, a neon-soaked glam rock opera that rips open the lockers and back alleys of 1980s teenage life. Fueled by screaming guitars, glitter-drenched anthems, and the swagger of youth gone wild, the record captures the chaos, rebellion, and raw ambition of high school in the decade of excess.

“80’s High” tells the story of a generation standing at the crossroads: kids sneaking out to basement shows, chasing love under streetlights, and daring to dream bigger than their small-town streets. Some fell hard—burning out in the smoke of bad decisions—while others rode their obsession with machines and wires into the birth of the IT empire, transforming teenage outsiders into billionaires.

Every track glows with the highs and lows of adolescence: heartbreak, hedonism, neon nights, and the hunger to escape. It’s equal parts fist-pumping arena rock and bittersweet diary entry—an anthem for the broken, the dreamers, and the survivors who proved that the wild ride of youth can echo for a lifetime.

Tracks:

1. High School Rock And Roll Fantasy

[Verse]
Leather boots hit the blacktop
Chalk dust flies like a storm
Erasers can't erase this rage
Wild hearts born to misbehave

Laughter echoes down the hall
Desks are prisons walls too small
Dreams break chains like gongs collide
Tribal rhythm fuels the fight

[Prechorus]
Nose flutes cry the ancient sky
Mountains roar where spirits fly

[Chorus]
High school rock and roll fantasy
We’re fire in the hills
High school rock and roll fantasy
Untamed like the thrill
Gongs clash bamboo sings
We are kings we are kings

[Verse 2]
Locker doors slam rebellion's beat
Graffiti screams on every sheet
Painted faces war's disguise
Riffs explode ignite the skies

Drumsticks crack like thunder rolls
Pounding hearts uniting souls
Metal screams the mountain's call
Igorot pride we rise we brawl​

2. First Of Everything

[Verse]
Night splits wide open sky bleeds red
Gongs pound the ground spirits tread
Smoke rises bamboo snaps rhythm in my head
First light's scream breaks the silence dead

[Chorus]
First of everything wild fire burns
First of everything no way to return
Dance on the edge where the world spins thin
First of everything let the chaos begin

[Verse 2]
Steel strings clash with ancient bone
Nose flute wails feels like home
Feet pound dirt hearts beat stone
Every breath a warzone

[Prechorus]
Who am I to tame the wind
Who am I to hold it in

[Chorus]
First of everything wild fire burns
First of everything no way to return
Dance on the edge where the world spins thin
First of everything let the chaos begin

[Bridge]
Chant the call under moon's cruel glow
Mountains tremble rivers overflow
Echoes cry through the hollowed bamboo
Spirit’s voice cuts sharp breaks through

3. Dextromethorphan

[Verse]
I hit the peak high and low low
Mountains scream louder than my soul
Gongs crash the echoes of old
Drums pound deep like a heart turned cold

[Prechorus]
Hands raised fists clenched
Sky bends time spent

[Chorus]
Dextromethorphan haze
Dancing wild in the blaze
Lose my name lose my face
In the Dextromethorphan haze

[Verse 2]
Flute sings a ghost in the wind
Bamboo cracks where the dreams begin
Stone trails break under my boots
Echoes call bloodline roots

[Prechorus]
Beat that skin break that chain
Free the rage fuel the flame

[Chorus]
Dextromethorphan haze
Dancing wild in the blaze
Lose my name lose my face
In the Dextromethorphan haze

4. Critical Condition

[Verse]
Flicker lights in the dark room haze
Needles pierce in the shadowed maze
A gong hums low like a heartbeat's fall
Breathing shallow but I hear it all

[Prechorus]
Nose flute wails
My soul it screams
Caught in this cage of broken dreams

[Chorus]
Critical condition
I'm bleeding inside
A tribal rhythm pulls
Can't run
Can't hide
The mountain spirit whispers
"don't let go"
But the devil in the needle says
"I told you so"

[Verse 2]
Bamboo cracks like the bones I broke
Riffs scream loud through the toxic smoke
My veins are rivers
Poisoned and dry
Eyes roll back
But I can't ask why

[Prechorus]
Chants rise high
The gong strikes low
Ancestral echoes won't let me go

[Chorus]
Critical condition
I'm bleeding inside
A tribal rhythm pulls
Can't run
Can't hide
The mountain spirit whispers
"don't let go"
But the devil in the needle says
"I told you so"

5. School Boy

[Verse]
Bell rings loud time drags on
Chalk dust air dreams feel gone
Tattered books pages torn

Scratched desks carved names
Whispers echo same old games
Fingers tap like falling rain

[Prechorus]
Gongs resound deep in my veins
Bamboo cracks through the chains

[Chorus]
School boy lost in the tide
Carrying mountains deep inside
Chasing shadows where they hide
School boy nowhere to confide

[Verse 2]
Flute wails soft across the peaks
Answers buried where earth speaks
Not in halls not in tests

Climbing high where the wind calls
Ancestors chant behind stone walls
Echoing through my restless chest

6. Neon Nights

[Verse]
Flickering lights shadows tall
Echoes bouncing down the hall
Locker doors slam dreams collide
We were gods on the edge of a ride

[Prechorus]
Smoke and sweat and neon haze
Every heartbeat a flash of craze

[Chorus]
Neon nights burn so bright
Under stars we ignite ignite
Raise your fists scream the sky
Neon nights never die

[Verse 2]
Stolen sips from red solo cups
Laughter spilling we couldn’t shut up
Shredded jeans our armor of pride
Broken rules were our battle cry

[Prechorus]
Guitars wail drums collide
We were thunder in the tide

[Chorus]
Neon nights burn so bright
Under stars we ignite ignite
Raise your fists scream the sky
Neon nights never die

7. Daydream Rebels

[Verse]
Eyes wide shut but the room’s a blur
Chalkboard wars I’m stuck in the stir
Gongs echo deep in my mind
Mountains call I leave this grind

[Prechorus]
Bamboo whispers break the air
Dreams of freedom everywhere

[Chorus]
Awake awake daydream rebels
Ride the skies defy the levels
Guitar wails the gongs collide
Spirit runs can’t be denied

[Verse 2]
Pencils snap like breaking chains
Flutes cry loud in distant plains
Tribal drums they pound they scream
Classroom fades I chase the dream

[Chorus]
Awake awake daydream rebels
Ride the skies defy the levels
Guitar wails the gongs collide
Spirit runs can’t be denied

[Bridge]
Party lights mix with firelight glow
Metal riffs with ancient flow
Dance like wolves run like streams
This is life not just dreams

8. Sleepless Night

[Verse]
Neon glow in the midnight sweat
Bamboo shadows the fire's threat
Mountains howl while the gongs collide
Teenage dreams on a reckless ride

[Chorus]
Sleepless night
Hearts ignite
Falling faster
Into the fight
Sleepless night
We burn so bright
Chasing chaos
Till morning light

[Verse 2]
Drums pound loud like a heartbeat scream
Nose flute cries through a shattered dream
Powder trails on the mirrored edge
Dancing wild on the canyon's ledge

[Prechorus]
Skyline bending breaking rules
Ancestors watching foolish fools

[Chorus]
Sleepless night
Hearts ignite
Falling faster
Into the fight
Sleepless night
We burn so bright
Chasing chaos
Till morning light

[Bridge]
Gong strikes echo in the valley's bones
Bamboo whispers of ancient tones
Tribal spirits and glam collide
Lost in the sound nowhere to hide

9. Curious  Flamed

[Verse]
Feet pounding dirt path
Hands reach for the wild moon
Eyes like burning coals
What’s beyond this mountain
What’s beyond this mind

[Prechorus]
Curious flames in the dark
Curious flames ignite the spark

[Chorus]
Dance with the fire dance with the night
Drumbeats echo in the fight
Teen spirit screams through the hills
Curious flames never stand still

[Verse 2]
Gongs ring like thunder
Riffs shred through the air
Smoke rises in the valley
Whispers call from shadows
Whispers call from dreams

[Prechorus]
Curious flames in the dark
Curious flames ignite the spark

[Chorus]
Dance with the fire dance with the night
Drumbeats echo in the fight
Teen spirit screams through the hills
Curious flames never stand still

10. Mountain Of Desire

[Verse]
Eyes like fire burn through the night
Soft hands reaching
Dreams ignite
Mountain whispers
Hearts collide
Heavy breath
Nowhere to hide

[Prechorus]
Gongs pounding deep in the earth
Echoes call
What’s it worth

[Chorus]
On this mountain of desire
Burning bright
Hearts on fire
Love like thunder in the rain
Can’t escape
Can’t explain

[Verse 2]
Bamboo breaks beneath our feet
Flute cries softly
Bittersweet
Every step pulls me near
To the edge
To the fear

[Prechorus]
Drums rolling
Pounding the sky
Ancient chants
Asking why

[Chorus]
On this mountain of desire
Burning bright
Hearts on fire
Love like thunder in the rain
Can’t escape
Can’t explain

11. The Genius

[Verse]
Books piled high sky-high dreams on fire
Late nights the neon glow darker desire
Pages turning sharp as blades
The ink bleeds red from a mind betrayed

[Prechorus]
Whispered secrets traded for the spark
Chasing stars while the world's still dark

[Chorus]
The genius burns the genius learns
Through the haze the fire returns
Gong strikes the heart bamboo cracks the mind
Through the smoke the path I’ll find

[Verse 2]
Flute cries echo mountain winds howling
Drums pulse like blood the truth growling
Ancestors watching their chants collide
With the steel and string where the soul can't hide

[Prechorus]
Dance of the spirits fight of the flame
Fuel for the beast in a twisted game

[Chorus]
The genius burns the genius learns
Through the haze the fire returns
Gong strikes the heart bamboo cracks the mind
Through the smoke the path I’ll find

12. Ghosts Of High

[Verse]
Smoke trails rising sharp and thin
Chalk dust on the floor where it begins
Echoes of a gong from the mountain air
Bamboo snaps they never cared

[Chorus]
Ghosts of high they’re screaming loud
Some went under some broke the clouds
Powder dreams and the flashing lights
Ghosts of high haunt the teenage nights

[Verse 2]
Steel strings crash on ancestral bones
Nose flute wailing ancient tones
Some took the line to nowhere fast
Others flew high and never crashed

[Prechorus]
Who’s to say what’s right or wrong
In the drumbeat haze where you belong

[Chorus]
Ghosts of high they’re screaming loud
Some went under some broke the clouds
Powder dreams and the flashing lights
Ghosts of high haunt the teenage nights

[Bridge]
Chanting voices call the stars
Gongs like hearts they beat so hard
Tribal rhythms lost in smoke
A billion dreams from a single toke

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