1. The Hold Steady/Boys & Girls In America - I listened to this disc
more than any other this year.  A huge leap from Separation Sunday.
2. Butch Walker & The LGOT - Fun and inspired glam rock from a great
lyricist and an amazing performer.  
3. My Chemical Romance/The Black Parade - The best 70's concept record
since, well, the 70's. 
4. The Strokes/First Impressions of Earth - This disc is filled with
great songs and performances.  Nick Valensi and Albert Hammod Jr. make a
play for guitar-god status on this one.
5. Gnarls Barkley/St. Elsewhere - Danger Mouse's talents seem limitless.
This disc hits on rock, old-school soul, hip-hop, pop, and on and on.
6. Damone/Out Here All Night - Crunchy pop-metal from Boston.  Like it's
1989 all over again.
7. Jon Auer/Songs From The Year Of Our Demise - My favorite post-Posies
release.
9. Neko Case/Fox Confessor Brings The Flood - No other singer like her
in the genre.  Fantastic vocalist and she can bring the tunes, too.
9. The Format/Dog Problems - Great power-pop record and a nice F-U to
Atlantic for dropping them.
10. Sloan/Never Hear the End of It - The full songs contained within are
among the best Sloan has ever recorded.
 
11. Orson/Bright Idea
12. Roger Joseph Manning Jr./Land Of Pure Imagination
13. Damien Rice/9
14. Cheap Trick/Rockford
15. Roots/Game Theory
16. Yeah Yeah Yeahs/Show Your Bones
17. Red Hot Chili Peppers/Stadium Arcadium
18. Flaming Lips/At War With The Mystics
19. Wolfmother/Wolfmother
20. Rhett Miller/The Believer
 
Best of the rest (in alphabetical order):
Arctic Monkeys/Whatever You Say I Am...
Beck/The Information
Bob Dylan/Modern Times
The Feeling/Twelve Stops & Home
Lupe Fiasco/Food & Liquor
Harem Scarem/Human Nature
J. Dilla/Donuts
Jet/Shine On
Sonic Youth/Rather Ripped
Tom Petty/Highway Companion
 
And my guilty pleasure discs of 2006: Pink/I'm Not Dead & Buckcherry/15