"Wouldn't It Be Good" is a song by the English singer-songwriter Nik Kershaw, released on 20 January 1984 as the second single from his debut studio album, Human Racing (1984).

Kershaw remembers that this was one of the last songs he wrote for the Human Racing album, mapping out the chords first on a keyboard.

Thus he decided to create a kind of "guitar orchestra", inspired by work of Queen's Brian May, where the notes were separated into single lines and harmonies.

It was directed by graphic designer Storm Thorgerson,[5] was released in 1984 and received heavy rotation on MTV, which helped the song reach No.

The music video was filmed in mid-January 1984 over a period of three days, primarily in and around St. James' Court Hotel, London.

[6] In a review of the single's 1991 reissue, Stephen Dalton of NME praised it as "a deeply felt ennui at the hopeless dreams and aspirations of idealistic youth" and a "welcome re-release from a much underrated innovator of early synth-pop".