Prove You Wrong

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{{Infobox album

| name = Prove You Wrong

| type = studio

| artist = Prong

| cover = Prong-proveyouwrong.jpg

| alt =

| released = September 24, 1991

| recorded = 1990–1991

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = {{hlist|Groove metal{{Cite web|url=https://vanyaland.com/2016/09/18/remember-september-25-awesome-albums-turning-25-years-old-month/17/|title=Remember September: 25 awesome albums turning 25 years old this month|date=September 18, 2016|publisher=VanyaLand}}|alternative metal}}

| length = 45:07

| label = Epic

| producer = Mark Dodson{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uIIf03bGyAAC&q=Prove+You+Wrong+prong+1991&pg=PA244|title=New Wave of American Heavy Metal|first=Garry|last=Sharpe-Young|date=December 24, 2005|publisher=Zonda Books Limited|isbn=9780958268400|via=Google Books}}

| prev_title = Beg to Differ

| prev_year = 1990

| next_title = Whose Fist Is This Anyway?

| next_year = 1992

}}

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r15863|pure_url=yes}}|title=Prove You Wrong - Prong|publisher=AllMusic}}

|rev2 = Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal

|rev2score = 7/10{{cite book |last1=Popoff |first1=Martin |author-link1=Martin Popoff |title=The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties |publisher=Collector's Guide Publishing |year=2007 |location=Burlington, Ontario, Canada |isbn=978-1-894959-62-9 |page=351}}

|rev3 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

|rev3score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=6 |pages=671–672}}

|rev4 = Entertainment Weekly

|rev4score = A−{{Cite web|url=https://ew.com/article/1991/12/20/prove-you-wrong/|title=Prove You Wrong|website=EW.com}}

|rev5 = MusicHound Rock

|rev5score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |date=1999 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |page=903}}

|rev6 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

|rev6score = {{rating|3.5|5}}{{cite book |title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=1992 |publisher=Random House |page=565}}

}}

Prove You Wrong is an album by American heavy metal band Prong, released in 1991.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/prong-mn0000363100/biography|title=Prong | Biography & History|website=AllMusic}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3rK7CwAAQBAJ&q=Prove+You+Wrong+prong+1991&pg=PA333|title=New York Rock: From the Rise of The Velvet Underground to the Fall of CBGB|first=Steven|last=Blush|date=October 4, 2016|publisher=St. Martin's Publishing Group|isbn=9781250083623|via=Google Books}} It is their only album with Troy Gregory on bass guitar. The album includes a cover of "(Get A) Grip (On Yourself)", originally by the Stranglers.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yGjqAHJs488C&q=Prove+You+Wrong+prong+1991&pg=PT81|title=Triumphant|work=SPIN|date=October 24, 1991|publisher=SPIN Media LLC|via=Google Books}}

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.{{Cite web |last=Lee |first=Cosmo |date=September 24, 2011 |title=Prong's 'Prove You Wrong' turns 20 |url=https://www.invisibleoranges.com/prongs-prove-you-wrong-turns-20/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310101003/https://www.invisibleoranges.com/prongs-prove-you-wrong-turns-20/ |archive-date=March 10, 2016 |access-date=February 9, 2023 |website=Invisible Oranges}}

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." 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."{{cite web |title=Prong |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/prong/ |website=Trouser Press |access-date=24 December 2020}}

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=

  • 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