[ImpactBreaker]

Well the covers of koda kumi sound horrible, that's a fact. Since it was the very first sweetbox material I was exposed to, that totally removed any interest on listening to any other songs of them. Then recently, with ayu's interest in SWEETBOX and GEo lending his compositions to ayumi, it actually made me interested in listening to other songs of them and I actually liked them.
As for the new album "addicted", I found it funny because allç the songs covered by ayumi sound crap in my opinion (i'd rather listen zillion times to "Unforgiven" than, let's say, Jade's horrid Bold & Delicious). However, funny enough all the other tracks all sound much much better and are far superior in my opinion. I really love "Breakdown", "Over and Over" and "Graceland" which is a good album opening.
I'm not particularly excited at how GEO composes by using collages of classical songs though...I think he should be more original and create his own orchestrated material (If you don't know what I'm talking about, listen to "Everything's gonna be alright")