| Falling and Laughing | |
| Cover: | Fallingandlaughing.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Orange Juice |
| A-Side: | Falling and Laughing |
| B-Side: | Moscow Olympics/Moscow |
| Released: | February 1980 |
| Recorded: | December 1979 |
| Genre: | Post-punk[1] |
| Label: | Postcard Records |
| Producer: | Orange Juice |
| Next Title: | Blue Boy |
| Next Year: | 1980 |
"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. "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.[2]
A re-recording of the song appears on the band's 1982 debut album You Can't Hide Your Love Forever.
The first 963 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.[3]