Editing Prove You Wrong

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Prove You Wrong
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Prong (band)|Prong]]
| cover      = Prong-proveyouwrong.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = September 24, 1991
| recorded   = 1990–1991
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = {{hlist|[[Groove metal]]<ref name="vanyaland">{{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}}</ref>|[[alternative metal]]}}
| length     = 45:07
| label      = [[Epic Records|Epic]]<ref name=MH/>
| producer   = [[Mark Dodson (record producer)|Mark Dodson]]<ref>{{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}}</ref>
| 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}}<ref>{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r15863|pure_url=yes}}|title=Prove You Wrong - Prong|publisher=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref>
|rev2 = ''[[Martin Popoff|Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal]]''
|rev2score = 7/10<ref>{{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}}</ref>
|rev3 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
|rev3score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="CL">{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=6 |pages=671–672}}</ref>
|rev4 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
|rev4score = A−<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://ew.com/article/1991/12/20/prove-you-wrong/|title=Prove You Wrong|website=EW.com}}</ref>
|rev5 = ''[[MusicHound|MusicHound Rock]]''
|rev5score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="MH">{{cite book |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |date=1999 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |page=903}}</ref>
|rev6 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
|rev6score = {{rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="RS">{{cite book |title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=1992 |publisher=Random House |page=565}}</ref>
}}

'''''Prove You Wrong''''' is an album by American [[heavy metal music|heavy metal]] band [[Prong (band)|Prong]], released in 1991.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/prong-mn0000363100/biography|title=Prong &#124; Biography & History|website=AllMusic}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> It is their only album with [[Troy Gregory]] on bass guitar.<ref name=TP/> The album includes a cover of "[[(Get A) Grip (On Yourself)]]", originally by [[the Stranglers]].<ref>{{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}}</ref>

''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 metal|alternative]], [[thrash metal]], [[funk]], [[progressive metal|progressive]] and [[industrial music]].<ref name="vanyaland"/><ref>{{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]]}}</ref>

==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."<ref name="auto"/> ''[[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."<ref name="TP">{{cite web |title=Prong |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/prong/ |website=Trouser Press |access-date=24 December 2020}}</ref>

==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===
*[[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==
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[[Category:Epic Records albums]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Mark Dodson]]