Beg to Differ

Prong | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 12, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00000271S
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #199,434 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. For Dear Life

2. Steady Decline

3. Beg To Differ

4. Lost and Found

5. Your Fear

6. Take It In Hand

7. Intermenstrual, D.S.B. [Instrumental]

8. Right To Nothing

9. Prime Cut

10. Just The Same

11. Third From The Sun [Live]

Editorial Reviews

Thrird album from Prong, more thrash metal than groove metal.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Prong...Crunchy even in Milk!, October 12, 2003

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"lonenutnate" (Sector 7G) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beg to Differ (Audio CD)

What was so great about these guys was the tribal repetitiveness of the interplay between the guitar and drums. It sounds like a war dance, and it should, because they were proteges of Killing Joke. The lyrics are excellent and intelligent, which is a rare thing nowadays. No love ballads, no cries out for radio-play (like they could hope to get any in 1990) just a gut-level, relentless hardcore/thrash assault.

Best Songs- "Your Fear", "Beg to Differ", "Take it In Hand", "Prime Cut", "For Dear Life"

This and "Force Fed" are the ones to get. "Prove You Wrong" and "Cleansing" are ok, but too industrial and commercial for my liking...

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Early 1990s metal release that still holds its own, July 30, 2001

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Bart Tare "Cristobal" (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beg to Differ (Audio CD)

Prong's "Beg to Differ", released in 1990, still holds its own after eleven years. Tommy Victor's guitar playing on this album is melodic yet still heavy and powerful (though it sometimes does flirt with 1980s hair-band multi-note classical scale soloing); Ted Parsons' drum playing has interesting fast-slow tempo changes on almost every song; and Mike Kirkland's bass playing unobtrusively grounds the heaviness of the music for ensured head banging. I would say the music on "Beg to Differ" verges on sounding "light" compared to some of the speed-metal and metal-punk that has proceeded it, but I think this album can still go head to head with some of these releases too. In terms of the lyrics, Victor's words convey an adolescent anti-authoritarian/anti-capitalist "sell out" anger mixed cryptic imagery pointing to the vacuousness of consumerism. While I now feel (at the ripe old age of 34) these lyrics sometimes take themselves too seriously, I would say that for the most part, they still work. Songs like "Right to Nothing" and "Prime Cut" have great angry imagery and metaphorical language that will either appeal to your sense of humor or your sense of adolescent angst. Check out "Beg to Differ" if you like speed metal with a melodic touch. It's definitely still worth a listen and can help cleanse you when you want to get that head banging, air drums/guitar anti-authoritarian release.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tommy Victor-Guitar God, May 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Beg to Differ (Audio CD)

This album encouraged me to pick up a guitar. The production on this album is so pure, cold and sparse...might seem lightweight compared to their later work but has some killer riffs. "Your Fear" is a masterpiece, very original in its structure and probably my favourite prong song ever.