The only thing I know about Kiss is that they painted their faces and sold a lot of merchandise, dolls etc.
I have listened to three random songs on YouTube and knew every song.
If you were to 'sell' me Kiss... What album would you recommend?
In order:
Kiss - Alive! (1975) - one of the best sounding live albums of all time.
Kiss - Kiss [self titled debut] (1974) - one of the best debut albums of all time.
Kiss - Destroyer (1976) - one of the band's most popular albums. The first 3 songs of side one are amazing.
One of my personal faves would be their third album, Dressed To Kill (1975)
All of these albums, of course, are from their early days being 4 of their first 5 albums. in all seriousness, you can't go wrong with any of their first 8 albums where they rose from obscurity to one of biggest and loudest bands as well as one of the most easily recognizable bands on earth.
If you just want to check out a Best-Of album, then I would suggest 1978's
Double Platinum
A number of songs on this 20-song compilation were remixed and/or even re-recorded from the original version, but most still sound very good and for the most part stay very true to the originals.
From the 80's, the first two albums I would suggest would be their last in makeup and their first without,
Creatures of the Night (1982) and
Lick It Up (1983)
That should give you a decent enough selection to sift through to decide if they are a band you like or don't like.