This is from a adult joke book <| sep |> The reason they ' re regarded as bad albums is because of the overproduction on them , with super clean vocals and instruments except on Dos , because a lot of that stuff was more garageesque . It ' s not what Green Day do normally , and so people sort of leaned away from it . 21 CB sort of introduced cleaner vocals but the instruments were still there , but the Trilogy changed that . I personally like the Trilogy , but it ' s definitely not close to their other work . Not even because of the songs I actually like Loss of Control and Troublemaker , which are regarded as some of the worst songs due to their lyrical content , but they are actually really catchy . It ' s just because it wasn ' t as good as all of their other stuff . EDIT even then , ' not as good as their other stuff ' is subjective . If people like the clean Green Day best , these will be the best albums for them .