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1991 studio album by Prong
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
"Irrelevant Thoughts" – 2:37 (Parsons, Victor)
"Unconditional" – 4:45 (Troy Gregory, Victor)
"Positively Blind" – 2:43 (Victor)
"Prove You Wrong" – 3:31 (Gregory, Victor)
"Hell If I Could" – 4:00 (Gregory, Victor)
"Pointless" – 3:07 (Prong)
"Contradictions" – 4:10 (Victor)
"Torn Between" – 3:11 (Gregory, Victor)
"Brainwave" – 3:01 (Victor)
"Territorial Rites" – 3:31 (Prong)
"
(Get A) Grip (On Yourself) " – 3:05 (
Hugh Cornwell ) (
The Stranglers cover)
"Shouldn't Have Bothered" – 2:39 (Victor)
"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
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b
"Remember September: 25 awesome albums turning 25 years old this month" . VanyaLand. September 18, 2016.
^
a
b MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide . Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 903.
^ Sharpe-Young, Garry (December 24, 2005).
New Wave of American Heavy Metal . Zonda Books Limited.
ISBN
9780958268400 – via Google Books.
^
"Prove You Wrong - Prong" .
AllMusic .
^
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 .
^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music . Vol. 6. MUZE. pp. 671–672.
^
a
b
"Prove You Wrong" . EW.com .
^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide . Random House. 1992. p. 565.
^
"Prong | Biography & History" . AllMusic .
^ 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.
^
a
b
"Prong" . Trouser Press . Retrieved December 24, 2020 .
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"Triumphant" . SPIN . SPIN Media LLC. October 24, 1991 – via Google Books.
^ 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 .
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