All of you who thought it had something to do with a record catalog number were close. It is an imaginary catalog number.
Big Star (and especially Chris Bell) wanted to include this brief song as the last track on #1 Record as a kind of Beatles-y move -- like "Her Majesty" at the end of Abbey Road. The title came from a half-serious in-joke they had with Stax and Ardent.
The album was taking a long time to come out despite being ready to go. They had been joking with the Stax and Ardent folks that they would put it out themselves on their own label...and they're like, "hey, we even have a catalog number: ST 100/6." "Put out our record now, or we going ST 100/6 with this thing." Once the album was finally getting ready to come out, they used their in-joke, imaginary catalog number as the title for this last track of the album.
Pretty cool, huh? Big Star were pretty meta about music and the whole record business long before anyone else was.
All of you who thought it had something to do with a record catalog number were close. It is an imaginary catalog number.
Big Star (and especially Chris Bell) wanted to include this brief song as the last track on #1 Record as a kind of Beatles-y move -- like "Her Majesty" at the end of Abbey Road. The title came from a half-serious in-joke they had with Stax and Ardent.
The album was taking a long time to come out despite being ready to go. They had been joking with the Stax and Ardent folks that they would put it out themselves on their own label...and they're like, "hey, we even have a catalog number: ST 100/6." "Put out our record now, or we going ST 100/6 with this thing." Once the album was finally getting ready to come out, they used their in-joke, imaginary catalog number as the title for this last track of the album.
Pretty cool, huh? Big Star were pretty meta about music and the whole record business long before anyone else was.