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)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	7/10 [5]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[6]
Entertainment Weekly	A− [7]
MusicHound Rock	[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[8]

Prove You Wrong is an album by American heavy metal band Prong, released in 1991. ^{[9] [10]} It is their only album with Troy Gregory on bass guitar. ^[11] The album includes a cover of "(Get A) Grip (On Yourself)", originally by the Stranglers. ^[12]

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] [13]}

Critical reception

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." ^[7] 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." ^[11]

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. "Prove You Wrong - Prong". AllMusic.
5. 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.
6. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 6. MUZE. pp. 671–672.
7. "Prove You Wrong". EW.com.
8. The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 565.
9. "Prong | Biography & History". AllMusic.
10. 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.
11. "Prong". Trouser Press. Retrieved December 24, 2020.
12. "Triumphant". SPIN. SPIN Media LLC. October 24, 1991 – via Google Books.
13. 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.