Sam Westphalen's accoustic guitar percussion treatment of Michael Jackson's 1991 track "Black or White" in Australia's Institute of Music is rather unique. As Devour.com describes: "Westphalen gets the most out of his guitar to create his own, one-instrument band ..." If you're really in the mood for an amusing video definitely check out Sam's cover of MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This." via DVR

So the other day whilst randomly going through some MP3s in my iTunes I had a revelation. As I arrived at the artists whose names begin with the letter "M" I came to my Michael Jackson collection. There they all were - all of his songs from both his Thriller and Off the Wall albums. Because I have OCD I also use the iTunes star-rating option, so every song I have is rated accordingly. Looking at the ratings I applied to each individual track I noticed something strange that had never made itself apparent to me before: As a collective...