Yeah, 'Aliens' certainly has its moments (and, scare-wise, the music is more effective at evoking dread/horror than the Goldsmith score).
Hell, it has a faux dreamscape chestburster sequence at the start which is every bit as disconcerting as Kane's. Could even argue it was a little better. The stuff with the cat hissing and then those slow 'honey dripping' violin strings... Even the slow-motion is done at just the right pace to sell Ripley being in genuine fear she could be undergoing the same thing.
Kane's had more cultural impact because it was the first, but it was played relatively straight. The dreamed up version from 'Aliens' had better choreography.
As for this quote, my first reaction was to cringe. It's exactly the same thing he claimed for the first one.
