Originally Posted by Flyingpig437

The Head on the door album is the one to get. It covers a lot of their styles and does so brilliantly. The pop songs are catchy, the slow morbd one is the slowest and most morbid but tuneful one they did like that, it's got a corking pacey rocker, a silly one and some exquisite weird ones that hover inbetween the poppy stuff and the morbid stuff. It's a wonderful album. I can't praise it higly enough.

Originally Posted by Janszoon

I would say Disintegration is a good place to start as it's their best album, though Head on the Door, as mentioned by Flying Pig, might be a good starting point as well.