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Over the weekend I took my boys out with a neighbor and his son to see the new Sherlock Holmes<\/em> movie. We all saw the first one together when that came out, last year or whenever. That night I left the theater thinking I’d be spared sitting through a sequel, that the movie was so inconsequential that not even the dream makers in Hollywood would think it necessitated sequel. I was wrong. Last night, good father that I try to be, I said, “Sure!” to our friend when he called at the last minute and asked if we wanted to join him and his son for the sequel. Personally, I had my reservations.<\/p>\n

My wife was a little bummed that she wouldn’t be able to join us on such short notice. I told her that she probably wasn’t missing anything, that the first one, which she\u00a0didn’t see,\u00a0was no more\u00a0satifsfying than eating a single marshmallow. “Yeah,” she said, “but Robert Downey Jr.<\/strong> is usually good.”<\/p>\n

I looked her square in the eye and said with too-often-unchecked disdain, “I forget that you actually like that guy.”<\/p>\n

My teenage son jumped to her defense, “He’s good! How can you not like Robert Downey Jr.?”<\/p>\n

This got me thinking about Townsman E. Pluribus Gergely<\/strong>‘s Six-Pack or Shotgun theory<\/a> on how we actually assess acting talent. To summarize, if you don’t have the time to go back and read the original thread, Gergely’s legendary late-night pronouncement on the topic should do:<\/p>\n

“There’s no such thing as Acting Ability<\/em>!” he said in typically definitive fashion, slamming his fist for emphasis. “When we watch any any actor in any movie it comes down to one thing: If that actor showed up unannounced at your back door, would you greet him or her with a six-pack or a shotgun?<\/em>“<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Today, let’s see if we can tackle the near-impossible task of applying this theory to related pairs of polarizing musicians. Sure, we’re loaded for bear when it comes to passionate, informed musical<\/em> opinions, but let’s see if we can leave musical content out of it and investigate whether there is a deeper truth to our feelings on the following pairs of artists.<\/p>\n

Your mission is to choose which artist in each pair gets the six-pack and which gets the shotgun<\/em>. There’s no in-between, no ties, and especially none of this<\/a>! The only risk you face in participating is the risk of revealing something deep about yourself.<\/p>\n

A final reminder: If at all possible, leave your opinions on the artists’ music out of it. To aid in this I have attempted to kick things off with the selection of a few pairs of artists whose music most Townspeople have equal amounts of musical interest in.<\/p>\n

When you’re done assigning the six-pack and the shotgun to each of the following sets of related polarizing artists feel free to add your own pair of related polarizing artists for us to ponder.<\/p>\n

Let’s get it on…after the jump<\/em>!<\/p>