This film needs a new score

What you're saying is that you don't think the score suited the movie. I disagree. Jarre captures the essence of the movie perfectly: it's melancholic and has a powerful emotional resonance that reinforces the movie's strong thematic elements -- desperation, despair and depression. Just listen to the music right from the opening scene where you see Freddy chasing after butterflys in the field with his net; he's running carefree in an open field on a bright summer's day, filled with alacrity. But you know that despite this seemingly innocuous scene, it actually presages something quite sinister. Because the music tells us so.

You can't hold a candle to Gulbenkian.

I agree, The Collector's score seemed obtrusive to me. Maybe it just hasn't aged well, but at times I was actually reminded of Carl Stalling compositions from old Warner Bros. cartoons that set a tongue-in-cheek pastoral mood for PorkyPig/Foghorn Leghorn.

Oh, go back to playing your harmonica.

You stupid, clumsy labouring-boy.

I generally like Jarre's scores, but I have to admit on this and some of his other ones I've heard, that the music would begin and I'd half-way expect it to lead into "Lara's Theme" from Dr. Zhivago. There's just a similarity or repetition in the instrumentation and score that is often there, to my ears at least.