two fun exercises:

(i) on his livejournal Experiment Horse, Tom Ewing resurrects his Top 100 Singles of the 90s from six years back, makes retrospective notes (not all "what was I thinking?!?") and invites other people's comments

(ii) WFMU's Beware of the Blog's inspired idea of gathering together mp3s of those really-really-hard-to-find bands in the famous list Stapleton collated on Nurse with Wound's Chance Meeting. Part one here, part two there. (Link courtesy of An Idiot's Guide to Dreaming)