Falling and Laughing
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| Single by Orange Juice | ||||
| A-side | Falling and Laughing | |||
| B-side | Moscow Olympics/Moscow | |||
| Released | February, 1980 | |||
| Format | 7" | |||
| Recorded | December 1979 | |||
| Genre | Post-punk | |||
| Label | Postcard Records | |||
| Writer(s) | Edwyn Collins | |||
| Producer(s) | Orange Juice | |||
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"Falling and Laughing" is the debut single by Scottish post-punk band Orange Juice. It was the first single released by the independent rock label Postcard Records, owned by Alan Horne. "Falling and Laughing" marked a new shift of the post-punk sound in general, by using themes that were not normally used in the genre, such as love and innocence. It also had a brighter sound, contrasting with the music that their contemporaries, including Joy Division and Echo & the Bunnymen, were making at the time, while maintaining its roots in the experimentalism of the genre.
A re-recording of the song appears on the band's 1982 debut album You Can't Hide Your Love Forever.
The first 1000 copies came with a free flexi-disc, containing an early version of Felicity, a song written by James Kirk and later covered by the Wedding Present.
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