While The Great Leap Forward is not the first song to come to minds when thinking of the mid-late nineties (it isn't even from that decade), it certainly leaps forward in my mind as one of the most influential songs for me personally. I was the perfect poetry-writing youth made for socially conscious folk new wave.
I first heard the song in Jr. High on the life changing CC radio station, but I never caught the name or the artist (and don't forget searching for stuff via internet was not second nature yet).
Four years later I heard it again on the same station and frantically recorded it on to cassette tape, missing the first few lines. I listened to that truncated version until the tape died or was lost back when file sharing was non existent and a tape could turn into something precious.
It is a testament to 
In 1993 Dolly wanted to make an album in traditional female vocal country sound, the result is the uneven (as in sometimes over-produced) 
You know what it's like, when you hear a song, then can't remember what it was, but you know you loved it and the fact that you can't find it and can't remember it drives you soo cray, because all you want to do is hear that song one more time, until literally that is ALL you want to do because you know it's just the perfect song for right now and any other song will just not do. And then finally you find out what it was and you play it and you are happy again. 
It's no secret that I love theatrical music – not musical theater music, and there is a difference, but big storytelling, dramatic music that makes you want to sing along. 
Mon Amour 
Nearly every boy I know learned how to draw by filling sketch books with 
Just as 
With its vague yet seemingly personal lyrics, like the notes in a stranger's journal,