I'll go back and give it another listen, but I doubt I'm gonna change my mind. As I said, I've picked up quite a number of Barry scores over the years -- like most of 'em, love some of 'em -- but I don't find myself replaying OHMSS at all. The score has very few tracks (11-12), the Bond theme is not consistently offered (I prefer at least one opener and one recap, or some blending into other tracks), and the pacing is slower than Octopussy. But... I'll give it another try.

I tend not to employ terms like "iconic" with film music, other than perhaps associate it with scores that I play over and over -- like Conan the Barbarian, or Goldsmith's The Mummy, or Tiomkin's Guns of Navarone, or Bernstein's Magnificent Seven. For me, Bernard Herrmann's "iconic" scores include Marnie, Psycho, 7th Voyage of Sinbad. I can't comment on North by Northwest or Ghost and Mrs. Muir because I don't own those... yet.

... Reed