Mark Mulcahy, from Polaris, was actually quite prolific, and is still producing solo work. He's got a new album dropping in 2005, and co-wrote an opera. We're supposed to be getting his new one sometime soon, but I'm not sure when.

i was actually on pete and pete once...great fun really. and polaris was great....oddly enough

Actually, Polaris was just the 'stage name' for a now-defunct Connecticut band called Miracle Legion. You can learn more about them at http://www.mezzotint.com/. Most of Miracle Legion's stuff is hard to find or out of print, but their one semi-major-label effort, Drenched, is readily available on sites like half.com for almost nothing -- and it's very good. Lead singer Mark Mulcahy went on to release a few very good solo albums, too. A handful of MP3s are on the Mezzotint site.

It's a shame -- both The Adventures of Pete and Pete and Miracle Legion were awesome and didn't deserve to end. Ah well. Even though I already own the 'Polaris' album, I'm very jealous of your cassingle!

Pete &Pete needs a DVD release. Stat.

For the nostalgic, I believe you can still catch reruns of episodes of Pete and Pete on the cable network "Noggin".

i used to own that cassingle. my sister and i were obsessed with pete & pete - an acquaintance of ours from the zine world consulted with the show about music selections (though not about miracle legion/"polaris" - he helped them pick out stuff like the magnetic fields and nice.

i agree that they need the full dvd treatment, except that they would really need to keep the rights to all the good songs they used on the early specials (they didn't even keep them long enough for some of the reruns).

the early specials were the best, though the series was great too.

I just ran across this blog randomly, but hearing the Pete and Pete theme brought back a wave of nostalgia. Being pretty young when it was on, I still remember coming home from school and watching Hey Dude, Salute Your Shorts, and Pete and Pete. [/tripdownmemorylane]

Erm, anyways, great music blog!

better sound quality, maybe, but not the versions as heard in the show. the cd is good, but the cassingle (still have mine, too) is most excellent simply because it's a >cassingle

Fat Planet has a rumor going around in the comments section that Pitchfork media inflates its reviews based on advertising. Does anyone here know what they're talking about?

I loved this show! I really hope it gets released sometime soon on DVD.

Funny thing is, the older Pete went to college with me. We always knew him as Mike or "Pete and Pete." Good stuff.

Awesome! I actually have the theme song on CD from the "Televsion's Greatest Hits - Cable Ready" CD. Unfortunately, all the songs on the CD are only the TV length versions. So my version of Hey Sandy is only 58 seconds long :( If you can grab the CD I highly recommend it. It has such notable hits as the theme from Ren & Stimpy, Duckman, Clarissa Explains It All, Kids in the Hall, Space Ghost Coast to Coast and Seinfeld.

Oh man, I loved the song from Kids in the Hall, too - Having an Average Weekend by Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet! Canadian surf rock!

Love them Petes. There is a guy making and selling DVD's (not VCD's) of all the show episodes for $50 at peteshrine.com. MP3's are available there too (though not of Polaris), as well as the lyrics to "Hey Sandy", which is supposedly about a victim of the Kent State shootings. Who knew?

i totally have that cassingle sitting on my bedside table right now. so weird. hadn't been to your page in a few days and there was that pete and pete cassingle. i was unemployed a couple years ago and spent some quality time downloading every episode of pete and pete from kazaa. still missing one special. thank god for noggin, though they rarely play it anymore. polaris. excellent.

I sent away for that tape too, and I still have it! As a kid, I didn't know anything about anything (much less about music), but I knew that show was something special.

whoa.. been looking around for a having an average weekend mp3 and got this.

i grew up washing this show just as it disappeared as quickly as it appeared. Amazing show that awaits dvd status.

I always knew it was something special, even when i was so young, because even my dad thought it was an amazingly original and great show.

pete's been in a few movies since then.. and is there a band/song name to the ren and stimpy theme?

I'm seeing this late through a google search (I already visit this site a lot, but missed this post) and to FYI you, Pete and Pete's first season comes to DVD either May 17th or May 18th.