>Disagree... Light Up The Night & The Dude both have a Thriller
>sound to me *shrugs* Of course it won't be a carbon copy
>because you have another major talent like MJ in the mix.

Herbie Hancock's LITE ME UP (you knew I was going to mention it) ... people call that his "Thriller" album because so many of those songs bring Michael Jackson to mind (they were the kind of songs he would write for an album produced by Q)...

those sounds are forever going to be associated with MJ and Thriller even though if you think about it, they really might be thinking about Off The Wall (of the three songs that Rod contributed for "Thriller", only one, "Baby Be Mine" sounds like the kind of song most associated with the Quincy Jones/Rod Temperton duo)