"Drowning" is a song by British ska/new wave band the Beat, released in April 1981 as the first single from their second album Wha'ppen?.

[2] Milo Miles for Rolling Stone described "Drowning" as a "suicide-is-sensuous fable about a harried organization man's death fantasy" and "All Out to Get You" as "[spotlighting] the tensions of adolescence raised to the breaking point by a society in unquiet desperation".

[3] Mark Cooper reviewing for Record Mirror wrote "Drowning has always been a fair enough description of the Beat sensation at its best and their best this is.

An utterly original melody, a lazy but taut feel, Saxa's sexy sax, Roger's toasting interlude and a treated riff that surprises and then brings smiles and you realise how preferable 'Drowning' is to sailing".

However, he described "All Out to Get You" as "ordinary by comparison, a standard piece of Beat meat, in fact a rewrite of 'Too Nice To Talk To'.