Here's my "top 91" for 2006:
 
1.   UPPER ROOM - Other People's Problems
2.   KATE YORK - Sadly Love
3.   WEEPIES - Say I Am You
4.   ELLERY - Lying Awake
5.   KATIE GOES TO TOKYO - Katie Goes To Tokyo
6.   KARINE POLWART - Scribbled In Chalk
7.   RADIO DEPT. - Pet Grief
8.   SANDRA MCCRACKEN - Gravity | Love
9.   JEFF LARSON - Swimming In The Make Believe
10.  MOLLY BANCROFT - Red Dirt Diaries
11.  MINDY SMITH - Long Island Shores
12.  DANIEL WYLIE - The High Cost Of Happiness
13.  RODDY WOOMBLE - My Secret Is My Silence
14.  MATH AND PHYSICS CLUB - Math And Physics Club 
15.  JOHN GILLESPIE - Eternal Summer
16.  EDIE CAREY - Another Kind Of Fire
17.  BETTIE SERVEERT - Bare Stripped Naked
18.  GARRISON STARR - The Sound Of You & Me
19.  ANDREAS MATTSSON - The Lawlessness Of The Ruling Class
20.  KILLJOYS - Stealing Horses
21.  TRESPASSERS WILLIAM - Having
22.  POEMS - Young America
23.  EMM GRYNER - The Summer Of High Hopes
24.  KASEY CHAMBERS - Carnival
25.  SOUND MOVEMENT - Ichi Go Ichi E
26.  SEASIDE STARS - The Stranded Whale
27.  BOO HEWERDINE - Harmonograph
28.  OWEN - At Home With Owen
29.  CHARADE - A Real Life Drama
30.  DELAWARE - Lost In The Beauty Of Innocence
31.  GERSEY - No Satellites
32.  GIN BLOSSOMS - Major Lodge Victory
33.  TOMMY KEENE - Crashing The Ether
34.  CHRIS TRAPPER - Hey You
35.  SNOW PATROL - Eyes Open
36.  EMBRACE - This New Day
37.  TOM RUSSELL - Love & Fear
38.  DELAYS - You See Colours
39.  PIA FRAUS - Nature Heart Software
40.  YOUTH GROUP - Casino Twilight Dogs 
41.  UMBRELLAS - Illuminaire
42.  MY ARCHITECTS - Grand Designs
43.  ROSANNE CASH - Black Cadillac
44.  CAMERA OBSCURA - Let's Get Out Of This Country
45.  HIGH VIOLETS - To Where You Are
46.  MARY KARLZEN - The Wanderlust Diaries
47.  MAT KEARNEY - Nothing Left To Lose
48.  CATIE CURTIS - Long Night Moon
49.  MONKEY SWALLOWS THE UNIVERSE - Bright Carvings
50.  MATTHEW RYAN - From A Late Night High Rise
51.  THEA GILMORE - Harpo's Ghost
52.  ESKOBAR - Eskobar
53.  NIKKI MEETS THE HIBACHI - Back Around
54.  RODDY FRAME - Western Skies
55.  FOLLOW THE TRAIN - A Breath Of Sigh
56.  JOHAN - Thx John
57.  PETE YORN - Nightcrawler
58.  DON McGLASHAN - Warm Hand
59.  LEIGH NASH - Blue On Blue
60.  PLUMB - Chaotic Resolve
61.  SOLO - Solopeople
62.  LLOYD COLE - Antidepressant
63.  JIM CUDDY - The Light That Guides You Home
64.  KEANE - Under The Iron Sea
65.  SOMETHING FOR KATE - Desert Lights
66.  MARK KOZELEK - Little Drummer Boy Live
67.  COPELAND - Eat, Sleep, Repeat
68.  MOJAVE 3 - Puzzles Like You
69.  DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL - Dusk & Summer
70.  ASTRID WILLIAMSON - Day Of The Lone Wolf
71.  RICHARD ASHCROFT - Keys To The World
72.  BETH ORTON - The Comfort Of Strangers
73.  SKYDIGGERS / CASH BROTHERS - Skydiggers / Cash Brothers       
74.  CRUSHED STARS - Obsolescence
75.  SHAWN COLVIN - These Four Walls
76.  HEADLIGHTS - Kill Them With Kindness
77.  MEETING PLACES - Numbered Days
78.  BROTHER  KITE - Waiting For The Time To Be Right
79.  ANNE MCCUE - Koala Motel
80.  SARAH BLASKO - What The Sea Wants, The Sea Will Have
81.  DAYLIGHT'S FOR THE BIRDS - Trouble Everywhere
82.  TIM FINN - Imaginary Kingdom
83.  BILL MALLONEE - Permafrost
84.  RICHARD BUTLER - Richard Butler
85.  GOO GOO DOLLS - Let Love In
86.  LEMONHEADS - Lemonheads
87.  SOPHIA - Technology Won't Set You Free
88.  EMM GRYNER - PVT
89.  PERNICE BROTHERS - Live A Little
90.  GUFS - A Different Sea
91.  BLACK WATCH - Tatterdemalion

Stuart McKenney