{"id":6023,"date":"2010-02-27T13:12:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T12:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/?p=6023"},"modified":"2010-02-27T13:12:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T12:12:34","slug":"wouldnt-it-be-good-nik-kershaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/music\/wouldnt-it-be-good-nik-kershaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Wouldn't It Be Good – Nik Kershaw"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is one of my favorite songs ever. I was and still am profoundly touched by this masterful composition. The lyrics have on occasion moved me to tears and the melody is so unique in its “Simple Complexity.”<\/p>\n

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Nik Kershaw<\/strong> is a profoundly prolific and prodigious song writer. Unfortunately, in my opinion, Nik got screwed over by the Press who pigeon holed him as a Pre-Teen, Teeny Bopper POP IDOL.\u00a0Highly unjustified in my opinion. His melodic progressions and complex yet beautifully rendered melodies were absolutely astounding and thought provoking. I have often called him the Mozart of Pop\/Rock.<\/p>\n

Back in the late 90’s, I was working with a singer named Brian McDonald from Scotland and sent some of the songs I wrote with Brian to Nik’s manager at the time. If my memory serves me well, I think his name was Mickey. Nik was interested in producing Brian if we used one or two of Nik’s songs on the album. Unfortunately Brian’s ego got the better of him and refused. Bad move Brian. Oh… And then there was the Peter Murray<\/strong>, classic record label horror story that I won’t get in to here. I will perhaps in my memoirs.<\/p>\n

Here is a rough Keyboard and Voice demo called “Temporary Carnival” sung by Brian McDonald
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Temporary Carnival<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em> (Lyrics \u00a9 Brian McDonald, Music \u00a9 Benjamin Kanarek) <\/span><\/em><\/address>\n
\u00a0<\/address>\n

Here is a recent concert of his classic Hit “Wouldn’t it be Good” and the original Video…
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“I got it bad
\nyou don’t know how bad i got it
\nyou got it easy
\nyou don’t know when you got it good
\nit’s getting harder
\njust keeping life and soul together
\ni’m sick of fighting
\neven though i know i should
\nthe cold is biting
\nthrough each and every nerve and fibre
\nmy broken spirit is frozen to the core
\ndon’t wanna be here no more<\/em>wouldn’t it be good to be in your shoes <\/em>
\neven if it was for just one day
\nand wouldn’t it be good if we could wish ourselves away
\nwouldn’t it be good to be on your side
\nthe grass is always greener over there
\nwouldn’t it be good if we cold live without a care<\/em>
\nyou must be joking <\/em>
\nyou don’t know a thing about it
\nyou’ve got no problem
\nI’d stay right there if it were you
\ni got it harder
\nyou couldn’t dream how hard it got it
\nstay out of my shoes
\nif you know what’s good for you
\nthe heat is stifling
\nburning me up from the inside
\nthe sweat is coming through each and every pore
\ndon’t wanna be here no more<\/em>
\nwouldn’t it be good to be in your shoes <\/em>
\neven if it was just for one day
\nand wouldn’t it be good if we could wish ourselves away
\nwouldn’t it be good to be on your side
\nthe grass is always greener over there
\nand wouldn’t it be good if we could live without a care” <\/em><\/em>
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Copyright \u00a9Nik Kershaw<\/em><\/address>\n
\u00a0<\/address>\n
The Original Video
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\nLive Version from the Ritz
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\nThe Acoustic Version from the “Good Acoustic Tour” 2009<\/strong>
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This is one of my favorite songs ever. I was and still am profoundly touched by this masterful composition. The lyrics have on occasion moved me to tears and the melody is so unique in its “Simple Complexity.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[674],"tags":[704,22,195,24],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/860423871_860423871forumtonnel2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paG8MM-1z9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15300,"url":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/music\/supergrass\/","url_meta":{"origin":6023,"position":0},"title":"Stunningly Soul Shifting and Surrealistic Supergrass","author":"Benjamin Kanarek","date":"March 31, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I just had to feature a couple of songs from this under rated and under appreciated brilliant group \"Supergrass\"","rel":"","context":"In "Music"","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/win_a_copy_of_supergrass_latest_diamond_hoo_ha_compimage.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":26225,"url":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/eclectic\/red-green-and-blue\/","url_meta":{"origin":6023,"position":1},"title":"Red Green and Blue","author":"Benjamin Kanarek","date":"July 25, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I was going through some of my pop-rock songs that I wrote with others and by myself and found this song called Red, Green and Blue, recorded at my old recording studio in Burgundy","rel":"","context":"In "Eclectic"","block_context":{"text":"Eclectic","link":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/category\/eclectic\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Red-Green-and-Blue-560x372.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Red-Green-and-Blue-560x372.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Red-Green-and-Blue-560x372.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5991,"url":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/music\/beam-me-up-scotty\/","url_meta":{"origin":6023,"position":2},"title":"Beam me up Scotty","author":"Benjamin Kanarek","date":"February 24, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Enjoy the trip... 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