Prove You Wrong
Prove You Wrong is an album by American heavy metal band Prong, released in 1991.[8][9] It is their only album with Troy Gregory on bass guitar.[10] The album includes a cover of "(Get A) Grip (On Yourself)", originally by The Stranglers.[11]
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | September 24, 1991 | |||
Recorded | 1990–1991 | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 45:07 | |||
Label | Epic[2] | |||
Producer | Mark Dodson[3] | |||
Prong chronology | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [4] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [5] |
Entertainment Weekly | A-[6] |
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | [2] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [7] |
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."[6] 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."[10]
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
- Mark Dodson – additional vocals
Production
- Prong – arrangers
- Mark Dodson – arranger, producer, engineer, mixing
- Brooke Hendricks – engineer, assistant engineer
- Brian Stover – assistant engineer
- Greg Calbi – mastering
- Roger Lomas – mastering
References
- "Remember September: 25 awesome albums turning 25 years old this month". VanyaLand.
- 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 – via Google Books.
- "Prove You Wrong - Prong". AllMusic.
- Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Volume 6: MUZE. pp. 671–672.CS1 maint: location (link)
- "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 – via Google Books.
- "Prong". Trouser Press. Retrieved December 24, 2020.
- "Triumphant". SPIN. SPIN Media LLC. October 24, 1991 – via Google Books.