Top 10 Comeback Albums
As Britney Spears prepares to release her latest attempt to recapture America's love, Circus, TIME looks back at the most notable comeback albums of recent decades.
He was a rock star of a certain period, so it would have been weird if Meatloaf hadn't done a fairly serious amount of drugs. But then Meatloaf lost his voice — those glorious, soaring, over-the-top pipes of his; O cruel fate! Years passed, as did several crappy albums. "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" would still play in full during holiday classic-rock blocks. But in 1993, 16 years after the original album, came Bat out of Hell II. And that song. Oh, that song — "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)." What was that? You'll do anything but love, but you won't do what? Who cares; heartfelt and campy, with a video directed by Michael Bay of all people — this is what we call a comeback.
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