YMMV / Whitehouse

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: "Try And Be Grateful" has a sampled piece of organ music playing faintly in the background, completely uninterrupted and unacknowledged throughout the course of the entire song. It doesn't even end properly—it just cuts out when the song's over.
• It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: The 2000s albums aside, Whitehouse isn't known for their evolving sound. Also, they are notorious for frequently re-recording the same tracks over again: for instance, "A Cunt Like You" (a re-recording of "Just Like a Cunt") was released on two albums and one limited single
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "Why You Never Became A Dancer" became well-known on the Internet due to the famous Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music sampling it as an example of power electronics music. The song's opening line (CAN I SUGGEST? YOU GET FUCKED!) also become infamous.
  • An infamous fan-made video of the song featuring a looped clip of a smiling woman has gained lots of traction throughout the web. It gets to the point where "Why You Never Became A Dancer" can arguably be considered a Signature Song for people on the Internet.
• Once Original, Now Overdone: Some of the earlier material, while groundbreaking for pushing the limits of industrial music and extreme electronics, sounds very crude and immature when looked back on today, especially compared to more artful artists like Merzbow or even Whitehouse's own material made after their 1990 reunion. Heavily bootlegged albums, particularly Psychopathia Sexualis (the album which coined the term "power electronics"), can suffer more—the only exposure modern audiences tend to get is via cheaply-made needle drops.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The more rhythmic albums from the 2000s.