| Manda & the Marbles DISCOGRAPHY NO APPROVAL NEEDED, VOL 4 (1997 Broken Note Records Comp) “Candybar” THE MARBLES (1998 Sick House Records) 8 song cassette WE ARE NOT VIRGIN, WHAT YOU SEE IS BLOOD (1999, Train of Thought Comp) – 3 songs ROCK’S NOT DEAD(1999 Break-UP! Records) full length CD Break-UP! Records GUIDE TO ENTERTAINING (2000, Break-UP! Comp) 2 songs- previously unreleased "Love at First Sight" TRANSYLVANIA STYLE PUNK ROCK (2000, Wornout Records Comp) -1 song - "dead by dawn" - horror version SEDUCTION (2001, Break-Up Records) full length Cringe.com/pilation – THE COLUMBUS SOUND – Volume 1 (2001, Cringe.com) 1 song – “another day” FIELDS AND STREAMS (2002, Kill Rock Stars) -- Various Artists - 2 disc CD Features the song "Sex Object" MORE SEDUCTION (2002, Go-kart Records) re-release of Seduction with 4 new songs COOLGRRLS Kick Ass (Coolgrrls.com compilation) REPUTATION (2003 Sickhouse Records) - 7 inch single Reputuaton, Do You Know ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES (2004 Sickhouse Records) Manda & the Marbles in FILM and TELEVISION: Rich Girls (TV) - MTV - Song used "Wanna Go Home" Creepies (HORROR FILM) - directed by Jeff Leroy Song used : "Dangerous" - review Come Away Home (FILM) - written by Robert Slane and Stephan Zakman, Directed by Doug McKeon images used from More Seduction record. Nail Polish (FILM) - Seventeen, Simple Things, and Lipstick are on the soundtrack for the film |
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| ALL MUSIC GUIDE - by Charles Spano Formed in 1997, the Columbus, OH, threesome the Marbles turn back the clock to Go-Go's-inspired new wave played with a rocking edge drawn from such influences as Joan Jett and the Blackhearts and even Guns N' Roses (Appetite for Destruction was the album that led guitarist Joe Mertz to pick up the guitar). Singer/songwriter/bassist Manda Marble and guitarist Joe Mertz first played together in the Ohio rock band Dick, Jane, and Sally. When that gig broke up, Manda and Joe began to look for a drummer and started to write songs for the power pop band the Marbles. Out in Los Angeles, child actor Mark Slak, who had been working as Jason Priestley's stand-in on 90210, saw an ad looking for a drummer in his hometown Columbus newspaper, and the rest is history. The Marbles released a seven-song EP, Rock's Not Dead, on Break Up! Records in 1999. Their full-length debut, Seduction, followed in late 2000. |