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A re-recording of the song appears on the band's 1982 debut album ''[[You Can't Hide Your Love Forever]]''.
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]]. <ref>http://iwishiwasaflexidisc.blogspot.co.uk/2009/01/orange-juice-felecity-flexi.html</ref>


==Track listing==
==Track listing==

Revision as of 13:05, 27 February 2013

"Falling and Laughing"
Song
A-side"Falling and Laughing"
B-side"Moscow Olympics/Moscow"

"Falling and Laughing" was 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.[1] The single has also been credited with giving birth to the indie pop 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 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. [3]

Track listing

  1. "Falling and Laughing" - (4:00)
  2. "Moscow" - (2:01)
  3. "Moscow Olympics" - (2:07)

References