Falling and Laughing

"Falling and Laughing"
Single by Orange Juice
A-side Falling and Laughing
B-side Moscow Olympics/Moscow
Released February, 1980
Format 7"
Genre Post-punk
Label Postcard Records
Writer(s) Edwyn Collins, Orange Juice
Producer Orange Juice
Orange Juice singles chronology
"Falling and Laughing"
(1980)		 "Blue Boy"
(1980)

"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 to giving birth to the Indie pop genre.[2]

Track listing

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

References

  1. ^ Postcard Records on TweeNet
  2. ^ Indie MP3 - Keeping C86 Alive!: Falling And Laughing. The Shambolic Birth Of Indie Pop!