"Best Friend" is a song by British ska/new wave band the Beat, released on 8 August 1980 as the fourth and final single from their debut studio album I Just Can't Stop It.

[2] The band raised 14 thousand pounds from the sales of the single, which went to the Anti-Nuclear Campaign and the CND.

This is another perfectly levelled 45, crisp, economical and punchy, the usual cleverly varied arrangement shifting the emphasis around a song so simple it's almost a cretin".

The reggae and ska influences are not so apparent and the whole, attractive sound could well be labelled "Pure Pop".

[7] On the other hand, reviewing for Sounds, Sandy Robertson was not impressed, writing that "apart from horns, this tune could almost be a lame version of that other Beat from LA".