It Would Be So Nice

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"It Would Be So Nice"

Single by Pink Floyd
B-side(s)	Julia Dream
Released	March 12, 1968
Genre	Psychedelic rock
Length	3:47
Writer(s)	Rick Wright
Producer(s)	Norman Smith
Pink Floyd singles chronology
"Apples and Oranges" (1967)	"It Would Be So Nice" (1968)	"Let There Be More Light" (1968)

"It Would Be So Nice" is a 1968 song by the rock band, Pink Floyd, written by Richard Wright. It was released as a single. Until the release of The Early Singles in 1992 with the box set Shine On, it was only available on the Masters of Rock compilation. Its b-side, "Julia Dream", was written by bassist Roger Waters and was also re-released on The Early Singles.

The song is regarded as one of Pink Floyd's weakest singles^{[citation needed]}; it was written out of desperation^{[citation needed]} as lead songwriter Syd Barrett stopped contributing to the band, and the song was largely ignored after its release (by both the public and the band).^{[citation needed]}

In The Dark Side of the Moon: The Making of the Pink Floyd Masterpiece, John Harris writes about the song:

The first recorded work [Pink Floyd] released in the wake of Syd Barrett's exit was Rick Wright's almost unbearably whimsical 'It Would Be So Nice,' a single whose lightweight strain of pop-psychedelia--akin, perhaps, to the music of such faux-counterculturalists as the Hollies and the Monkees--rendered it a non-event that failed to trouble the British charts; as Roger Waters later recalled, 'No one ever heard it because it was such a lousy record.' Waters' own compositional efforts, however, were hardly more promising. 'Julia Dream', the single's B-side, crystallized much the same problem: though the band evidently wanted to maintain the Syd Barrett aesthetic, their attempts sounded hopelessly lightweight.

Nick Mason was even more vocal than Waters in his dislike for the song, referring to it as "fucking awful".