the residents - duck stab/buster & glen is probably the easiest to get into, but you can't go wrong with most of their 70s material (not implying their 80s - 00s material isn't worth yr time, 'cos it is.)
sun city girls - not too well-versed in them (i've probably heard fifteen releases), but horse cock phepner and torch of the mystics are good starting points.
pere ubu - i'd avoid anything they've done after new picnic time. this band went to shit so fast. the modern dance is a necessity, though.
the fall - my brain tells me to go with the wonderful frightening world of the fall or this nation's saving grace, but my gut tells me grotesque (after the gramme.) i listened to a few fall albums before grotesque, but that was the one that got me hooked.
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