Fast Times at Ridgemont High follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, Linda Barrett and Mike Damone. What makes this film unique is that the soundtrack features songs of many of the eras quintessential rock artists. Both this movie and album soundtrack ushered in a heyday for such movie soundtracks through the early and mid 1980s.