Don't.

Unless you're 15 and watch the OC or something similar.

Get The Photo Album, then Transatlanticism (bit of a tough call trying to separate them, but I started with The Photo Album and it worked out okay for me!)

apparently as soon as a band's featured on a TV show, they are too lame to listen to anymore.

Start with 'We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes' and go from there. It's brilliant.

thats where it all began for me, also be sure to ignore all the haters on DiS

Zapsta and Quakerstoy have been taken to a DiS Lab to be tested for severe musical idiocy.

if you have a beating heart.

Transatlanticism is the place to start.

Ooh, rhyming.

by making love to a lady, rather than your hand.

"It's somewhat like eating an apple and trying to describe how it tastes"

Personally I like You Can Play These Songs With Chords, although Translanticism is probably the best place to start.

and Plans is rad. But some people don't like it.

Has the strongest songs and lyrically it is more naturally poetic than any other 'indie' release I can think of in recent years.

When I worshipped it, it introduced me to Death Cab, who I then began to worship also.

Seriously, the first series of that programme is superb. Well-written Sunday morning TV that was able to laugh at itself and the rest of the 'teen angst drama' sort of thing.

Don't watch anything after that though. It became glossy and started taking itself seriously.

when they were just a built to spill tribute band without the solos were good. then they got a crap drummer and delusions of grandeur.

or Transatlanticism.

Ignore the fools. Death Cab rule

But it's the one I'm most familiar with. I'd recommend it as a good place to start- it's how I got into them.

i'm pretty jealous of you that you have all these great albums that you have never heard, this will be your death cab summer and it'll be class, you might as well get the postal service 'give up' album while your at it... btw who cares if they are on the o.c.? and who cares if there's people who didn't like them until they were? we are just lucky to have had their music for a few years longer, some people just don't hear some sweet tunes until they become a bit more mainstrem, the 'o.c. death cab' fans are the ones who've enabled them to do massive world tours that means we'll get to see them in a town near us...thanks you oc fans! and aleena, this summer...check out whitest boy alive, crystal castles, broken social scene, stars, metric, yo la tengo, bright eyes, chin up chin up, two door cinema club, the swell season, kings of convenience, m83, pop levi, ms. john soda, ryan adams...enjoy!!