"Heartbeat Like a Drum" is a song by English new wave band A Flock of Seagulls, released by Jive in 1986 as the second and final single from their fourth studio album Dream Come True.

[6] Upon its release, Jerry Smith of Music Week wrote, "Sounding very much like a conglomeration of all their past singles, with the same vocal inflections, same synth beat, and with that awful disorted guitar riff repeated yet again, it seems that Mike Score and friends have got themselves in a rut and this certainly is not going to get them out of it.

He noted how "every production gimmick you could ask for bangs you squarely in the head, then returns every 10 seconds or so for an encore", but added that the song "dances on a pretty irresistible teenybopper hook that's bubblegum enough to deflate any studio excesses".

[9] In a review of the music video, Ethlie Ann Vare, writing for the Newspaper Enterprise Association, gave a grade C and described it as "not bad enough to be camp, and not good enough to be anything else".

"[10] In a retrospective review of Dream Come True, Dan LeRoy of AllMusic considered it to be a "memorable single with its chattering sequencers and colorful production tricks", adding that it "seemed like an endearing attempt to re-create Scritti Politti's bubblegum electro-funk".