Prove You Wrong

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Prove You Wrong
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Studio album by
Prong
ReleasedSeptember 24, 1991
Recorded1990–1991
Genre
Length45:07
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
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 7/10 [5]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Entertainment Weekly A− [7]
MusicHound Rock Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [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]

Contents

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

Production

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