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Prove You Wrong (Dig)

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Prong improved greatly from the still impressive FORCE FED to the great thrash of BEG TO DIFFER. When PROVE YOU WRONG was released, one thing was clear...Prong was still on to something great. Over the course of WRONG's 13 songs, Prong pack a concise punch with their simplistic but strong riffs courtesy of Tommy Victor, excellent bassplaying from Troy Gregory, and the phenomenal drumming of Ted Parsons.

The title track and "Unconditional" are some of the best material Prong has churned out, and over the course of the album, "Torn Between", "No Way To Deny It", and "Pointless" are immensely satisfying, intense bursts of hardcore metal. Prong can play with fierce devotion, but never to the point of self-parody like some of their contemporaries might have done.

PROVE YOU WRONG is another bold step for Prong, another important album in their impressive catalog. You can't go wrong with the songs found here, and Prong would only get better with their subsequent releases CLEANSING and RUDE AWAKENING. No Prong completist should be without PROVE YOU WRONG.

This could arguably be the best Prong album. I know, all you Cleansing/ Rude Awakening fans won't agree with me, but this album is true Prong before they turned more electronic (which I like too). This album builds remarkably upon Beg to Differ. GREAT metal.

anything by prong is great but this is by far the best prong album ever - raw, metallic, intense and futuristic without the more monotonous reliance on drum loops and samples and generic dropped tunings that came after this album - this one's sort of like pre-black album metallica meets earlier killing joke (think revelations and firedances)... great stuff

This album is very good. It's not the industrial type music that moern Prong albums sound like, this one is much more meat and potatoes. The album has the regulars, Tommy and Ted, but also has Troy Gregory, whose bass and vocals I believe are very much missed on the newer albums. This is Prong's best effort out of many good albums.

I have read the previous reviews of this album, and am disappointed with most of them. I bought this album the day it came out, and have followed Prong since their Hardcore days in NYC, Tommy Victor used to be an hourly at CBGB's, etc. This is by far the most experimental Prong Album, and to me their best. This came out in a time when the face of the Metal scene was going to change dramatically. And this was fresh. Mike Kirkland left to persue personal interests, and added was Troy Gregory(thrash bassist from Flotsam and Jetsam, now working as a Fusion musician in Ann Arbor). A Super talented musician which fit perfectly. This by no Means is a "thrash" or an "Industrial" album, this is a Thinking Man's metal album. And to be honest, not an album that was embraced for it's originality or musicianship, which is a shame. To me this was Prong's pinnacle, and it all went downhill from here. Cleansing was for the masses, and Rude Awakening was just bland as all hell, with no originality. About the only song that is out of place on this album is Brainwave. The Remaining are Dark, Twisted, and fantastic. Ted Parson's is a fantastic drummer, and Troy Gregory's writing efforts in songs like Unconditional, Prove You Wrong(that clean sounding rif is just spectacular, no other band could have pulled that off), Hell if I could, and Torn Between(Ted Parsons changes percussive rhythms ever so slightly after each verse, fantastic) really impressed me. Heck, I am a straight-up Metal head (Testament, Slayer, Death Angel, Old Sepultura, Etc) But I like some musical progression as well. This is not an album to be listened to, wanting to thrash around and bang your head, but rather listened to without distractions similar to Kyuss' Blues for the Red Sun and Sky Valley Albums. It has many Textures and Rhthyms, and is an Emotional rollercoaster. Thinking man's metal.

Where 'Beg to differ' had a straight forward and polished sound, this disc is more adventurous. A coupe of slow tracks as well.

They were going for something different and it works! The title track and 'Irrelevant Thoughts' feature some really unique structuring, to the almost funky 'Unconditional', the soothingly slow 'Contradictions', and Older School style of 'Positively Blind' , 'Torn Between' and the CDs best track 'Shouldnt Have Bothered'.. It all comes together and is probably Prongs most diverse disc.

Nonetheless, it is really great stuff... Intriguing.

TED PARSONS MAY BE THE MOST UNDERRATED DRUMMER IN THE WORLD. THIS ALBUM KICKS IT FROM START TO FINISH. DECEPTIVELY SIMPLE RIFFS & RYTHEMS BUILD TO MAJOR BLISS. IF YOU LIKE HARD MUSIC PLAYED BY GOOD MUSICIANS THIS IS A GREAT CD.

I was a big fan of Prong when they released 'Force Fed' and 'Beg to Differ', but when this CD came out I lost faith really quick. It is just flat out BORING. One thing I definitely require in my metal is that it not be boring. It is the same band, but with all of the energy sucked out of them. The only song that is actually good metal on here is 'Unconditional'. So save your money and just buy that one track.

I was a staunch metalhead back when this came out...so I thought that maybe now that my tastes have expanded that I would give this release another try...so I did, and it's STILL boring. Some of these reviews calling it a masterpiece just blow my mind.

For the record, I have been a fan again of everything they released AFTER 'Prove You Wrong'.

I had this cd when it was originally out back in the early 1990's. Cd is in good condition and I'm a bigger fan of Prong than I was when I first bought this.

This album in my opinion has a few good songs; Irrelevant Thoughts, Unconditional, Prove You Wrong and Get a Grip (on Yourself) other than that this album is crap.