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This is not only MY FAVORITE Barry Bond score, but many other folks I know as well. It was used verbatim in the teaser trailer for the INCREDIBLES, and heavily "borrowed" from (in a good way I think) in the actual score.
My thoughts exactly!

Maybe part of the problem for some is that it marked a real sea change in Barry's approach to Bond-- a new Bond accompanied by what I think is Barry's first use of synthesizers (at least it sounds like synthesizers). Yet just enough of the old James Bond theme to ring the familiar bells-- it plays electronically during the end credits and elsewhere, plus you get the guitar version during the attack on Piz Gloria. The best of both worlds!

And I don't think it's entirely an age thing. I was a young teen when this was first released, but my dad, who is understandably older than myself, loves this score too. In fact, it's the only Bond theme that the (lovably tone deaf) old guy has ever been able to hum recognizably.