Prove You Wrong

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Prove You Wrong
Studio album by Prong
Released	September 24, 1991
Recorded	1990–1991
Genre	Groove metal [1] alternative metal
Length	45:07
Label	Epic [2]
Producer	Mark Dodson [3]
Prong chronology
Beg to Differ (1990) Prove You Wrong (1991) Whose Fist Is This Anyway? (1992)

Prove You Wrong is an album by American heavy metal band Prong, released in 1991. ^{[4] [5]} It is their only album with Troy Gregory on bass guitar. ^[6] The album includes a cover of "(Get A) Grip (On Yourself)", originally by the Stranglers. ^[7]

Prove You Wrong continued the experimentation with groove metal that began on Prong's previous album Beg to Differ , toning down much of the hardcore punk elements from their 1980s output in favor of a more experimental sound that was influenced by alternative, thrash metal, funk, progressive and industrial music. ^{[1] [8]} Lead singer Tommy Victor said it had taken him a year to write the lyrics, which contained an accumulation of 16 years of experiences and anxieties, "looking through a rat's eyes at the whole New York experience." ^[9]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[10]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	7/10 [11]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[12]
Entertainment Weekly	A− [13]
MusicHound Rock	[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[14]

Entertainment Weekly wrote that Prong "combines postindustrial noise, a rebellious punk mentality, and heavy-metal flourishes and, with a minimalist approach that is anything but simplistic, strips them all down to a brutal essence." ^[13] Trouser Press wrote: "While the trio’s devotion to precisely lurching rhythms keeps the songs choppy—a clenched fist twitching spasmodically as it prepares to deliver a haymaker—this dull record makes that attribute part of a tentative shift toward industrial anti-musicality." ^[6]

Track listing

1. "Irrelevant Thoughts" – 2:37 (Parsons, Victor)
2. "Unconditional" – 4:45 (Troy Gregory, Victor)
3. "Positively Blind" – 2:43 (Victor)
4. "Prove You Wrong" – 3:31 (Gregory, Victor)
5. "Hell If I Could" – 4:00 (Gregory, Victor)
6. "Pointless" – 3:07 (Prong)
7. "Contradictions" – 4:10 (Victor)
8. "Torn Between" – 3:11 (Gregory, Victor)
9. "Brainwave" – 3:01 (Victor)
10. "Territorial Rites" – 3:31 (Prong)
11. "(Get A) Grip (On Yourself)" – 3:05 (Hugh Cornwell) (The Stranglers cover)
12. "Shouldn't Have Bothered" – 2:39 (Victor)
13. "No Way to Deny It" – 4:41 (Victor)

Personnel

Prong

• Tommy Victor – lead vocals, lead and rhythm guitars
• Troy Gregory – bass guitar, backing vocals
• Ted Parsons – drums, percussion, backing vocals

Production

• Prong – arrangers
• Mark Dodson – arranger, producer, engineer, mixing, additional vocals
• Brooke Hendricks – engineer, assistant engineer
• Brian Stover – assistant engineer
• Greg Calbi – mastering
• Roger Lomas – mastering

References

1. "Remember September: 25 awesome albums turning 25 years old this month". VanyaLand. September 18, 2016.
2. MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 903.
3. Sharpe-Young, Garry (December 24, 2005). New Wave of American Heavy Metal. Zonda Books Limited. ISBN   9780958268400 – via Google Books.
4. "Prong | Biography & History". AllMusic.
5. Blush, Steven (October 4, 2016). New York Rock: From the Rise of The Velvet Underground to the Fall of CBGB. St. Martin's Publishing Group. ISBN   9781250083623 – via Google Books.
6. "Prong". Trouser Press. Retrieved December 24, 2020.
7. "Triumphant". SPIN. SPIN Media LLC. October 24, 1991 – via Google Books.
8. Lee, Cosmo (September 24, 2011). "Prong's 'Prove You Wrong' turns 20". Invisible Oranges . Archived from the original on March 10, 2016. Retrieved February 9, 2023.
9. Unsworth, Cathi (October 19, 1991). "Sidelines: Prong". Melody Maker . London. p. 10.
10. "Prove You Wrong Prong". AllMusic .
11. Popoff, Martin (2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 351. ISBN   978-1-894959-62-9.
12. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 6. MUZE. pp. 671–672.
13. "Prove You Wrong". EW.com.
14. The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 565.