"Sight for Sore Eyes" is the tenth overall single from the British band M People released as the lead single from multi-platinum album Bizarre Fruit. Written by Mike Pickering, Paul Heard and Heather Small and Produced by M People. It was released on 7 November 1994. The song peaked at number six on the UK Singles Chart.

The band had scored four consecutive Top 10 singles from the previous album Elegant Slumming and toured the UK and Europe twice, but over the summer of 1994, worked quickly to record new album Bizarre Fruit, for which "Sight for Sore Eyes" was the first single.

The song was recorded at the Roundhouse in Chalk Farm, London. The song starts with a gospel-esque 'harmonised' warm-up by the backing vocalists accompanied with a building piano with lead vocals by the unmistakable voice of Heather Small. The key refrain #"Ain't love, ain't love, ain't love a surprise"# is bellowed by Heather and then other key elements are introduced, most notably synths and a subtle allegro acenato (quick and accentuated) piano movement during the verses with Small's vocals more prominent than on previous singles. In the chorus breaks, an Italo house style chord progression and sequenced bleeps granuliser synths lead up to the verses. Like "One Night in Heaven", the melody line is guided by the deep Moog bass line, programmed drumming, percussion drumming and layered hi-hat synths and a four-to-the-floor house beat. This is underlined by subtle strings and big chords during the actual choruses. The Italo house style is most punctuated during the middle-eight piano-break.

"Sight for Sore Eyes" became the band's sixth consecutive single to enter the Top 10. It also, for only the second time since "One Night in Heaven" seventeen months previous, climbed the next week. It is only the second M People single to climb within the top 10. It entered the chart at number 8 and following club play and performances on British television, most notably Top of the Pops, saw an increase in sales to then peak in its second week at number 6.

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