The first complete Sid Herpes composition (as distinct from his parody songs) to be recorded was "Maggie T." (© 1983, S. Herpes), stunningly recorded by Herpes in 1983 with legendary metamusic group The Anachronisms. The intellectual basis of this song is not hard to discern – it is Marshall McLuhan's The Mechanical Bride (1948). The lyric (perceptively and artfully rendered by Hector La Paunche) starts with a declaration that Maggie T. is loved for her appurtenances – her peekaboo push-up bra etc. – an idea directly derived from McLuhan, who argued that womanhood had become defined as possession of the right stuff.

The idea is carried farther, however. The comical description of Maggie T.'s erotic regalia and the singer's obsession with his own gratification are obviously intended to be contrasted with the conventional love lyric's enumeration of the loved one's beautiful body parts. If it is ludicrous to love Maggie T. because her metallic fishnet stockings excite you then it is equally ludicrous to love someone because her beautiful hair excites you.

This was but the opening salvo fired by Herpes and his fellow Anachronisms in their war against the medieval conception of love with which contemporary "entertainment" is obsessed. Unlike most of the public, The Anachronisms are aware that the Middle Ages are over. They live in a world in which the smart woman does not forget the batteries for her vibrator.