1989 re-issue
Adds b-sides from the "Take Me To The Other Side

Take Me To The Other Side

-Spacemen 3:*Sonic Boom – vocals, guitar, producer*Jason – guitar, vocals, organ, producer*Pete "Bassman" Bain - bass guitar*Rosco – drums-Additional personnel:*Alex Green - saxophone*Mick Manning - trumpet*Graham Walker - engineer...

" single as bonus tracks:
1995 re-issue (Genius Records CD)
Adds two tracks from the "Walkin' With Jesus" single and the Transparent Radiation

Transparent Radiation

-Spacemen 3:*Sonic Boom – vocals, guitar, producer*Jason – guitar, vocals, organ, producer*Bassman – bass*Rosco – drums...

EP as bonus tracks:
1996 re-issue (Taang! Records CD)

Liner notes

The vinyl edition of The Perfect Prescription includes liner notes by author R. Hunter Gibson:

"'The Perfect Prescription' is an album that will be left out of the rock 'n' roll readers, just as the great texts bid Bo Diddley

Bo Diddley

Ellas Otha Bates , known by his stage name Bo Diddley, was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter , and inventor...

 throw down his cloak for the quickstep of Eddie Cochran

Eddie Cochran

Eddie Cochran , was an American rock and roll pioneer who in his brief career had a small but lasting influence on rock music through his guitar playing. Cochran's rockabilly songs, such as "C'mon Everybody", "Somethin' Else", and "Summertime Blues", captured teenage frustration and desire in the...

.

If there has ever been an untrumpeted classic, here it is. An arcane, apocryphal document, this record, in late '80s UK, was telegraphing a message of unconcerned hope in a world hypnotised by guilt-ridden social work rock. Here, more than anywhere, Spacemen 3 have a vested interest in absolutely nothing.

It is revolutionary and militant where most angry young rock is liberal at best. It is extreme and accurate. Like 'Aftermath' it captures every aspect of the age that would later be analysed. As the unassuming soundtrack of a country breaking down and a world breaking up, its very nature means that it has been ignored.

Spacemen 3, like all the great rock 'n' rollers, from Arthur Parker to Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a leading French Post-Impressionist artist. He was an important figure in the Symbolist movement as a painter, sculptor, print-maker, ceramist, and writer...

, are revolutionary; this is their great manifesto, striding free from the pharmacy raid of their debut armed with the keys of the musical medicine cabinet. When we left off things would never be the same. But the other side of the locked door, well, it's like the white one in the story.

If 'Sound of Confusion' denied the wider stretches of the sense in favour of the immediately, roughly sensual, this script paned out from some suburban global village Viet vet subculture into a poppyfield undersown with righteous paranoia. And still the smell of burning rubber on trash yankee wheels thickens the air...

What goes on? Get the answer if you want it."