Falling and Laughing

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{{Infobox song

| name = Falling and Laughing

| cover = Fallingandlaughing.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Orange Juice

| album =

| A-side = Falling and Laughing

| B-side = Moscow Olympics/Moscow

| released = February 1980

| recorded = December 1979

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = Post-punk{{cite magazine|first= Phil |last= Alexander |title= 20 Great Post-Punk Tracks |date= 1 April 2014 |magazine= Mojo |url= http://www.mojo4music.com/13181/20-great-post-punk-tracks/ |accessdate= 23 August 2016}}

| length =

| label = Postcard Records

| writer = Edwyn Collins

| producer = Orange Juice

| prev_title =

| prev_year =

| 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.twee.net/labels/postcard.html |title=Postcard Records - TweeNet |publisher=Twee.net |date=2001-09-01 |accessdate=2014-08-06}}

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.{{cite web|author= |url=http://iwishiwasaflexidisc.blogspot.co.uk/2009/01/orange-juice-felecity-flexi.html |title=I Wish I Was A Flexidisc: Orange Juice - Felicity flexi (1980) |publisher=Iwishiwasaflexidisc.blogspot.co.uk |date=2009-01-27 |accessdate=2014-08-06}}