Eye of the Goof

Junk Shop Glam is a term coined by the music press and record collectors to describe lesser-known glitter bands from the '70s whose records didn't exactly burn up the charts, but kicked ass nevertheless. The british comp, Velvet Tinmine, has excavated 20 gems of lost glampop bubblemetal from the likes of The Mighty Plod, Brett Smiley, and Edinburgh's fabulous locked-crotch rockers, Iron Virgin (pictured above), whose teen anthem Rebels Rule is a song that should've been all over the radio back in 1973. Why didn't they hit it big? I'm not sure, but it might have had something to do with the conspicuous lack of giant bulges in those skin-tight trousers of theirs. I suspect that if they'd stuffed a few cucumbers wrapped in tinfoil down the front, things would've turned out much differently.