Prove You Wrong

Prove You Wrong is an album by American heavy metal band Prong, released in 1991.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</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>Template:Cite web</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, thrash metal, funk, progressive and industrial music.<ref name="vanyaland"/><ref>Template:Cite web</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">Template:Cite web</ref>

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