Best "album" of 2006

Well I started this thread in Feb and now that the end of 2006 is 24 hours away I will share my fav albums of 2006. Of note, I found that I bought way too many CD's largely on hype or based on internet. IN fact, I bought so many that I'm sure there a few CDs I never even really listened to. This list represents the few CDs that I found repeatedly listening to on my emmlabs or iPod 1G or 2G nano:

Fox Confessor Brings The Flood; Neko Case
Garden Ruin; Calexico
Destroyer's Rubies; Destroyer
the life pursuit; belle and Sebastian
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not; Arctic Monkeys
The Warning; Hot Chip
Yellow House Grizzly Bear
Roots & Crowns Califone
Nine times that same song; Love is all
Ys; Joanna Newsom
The Greatest; Cat Power
Return To Cookie Mountain; TV On The Radio
Post-War; M. Ward
Silent Shout; The Knife
Rabbit Fur Coat; Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins
Rather Ripped; Sonic Youth
The Crane Wife; Decemberists
The Loon; Tapes n Tapes
So this is goodbye; Junior Boys
Ships; Danielson
Eraser; Thom Yorke
Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain; Sparklehorse
NOTHING THIS YEAR by RYAN ADAMS

These are not necessarily in order, as other than Neko and Calexico, none of the others really stood out enough to order them.

Thom y, it's a decent list. I would add:

Ray LaMontagne: Till the Sun Turns Black
Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3: Ole Tarantula
Ray Davies: Other Peoples Lives
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan: Ballad of the Broken Seas
Willie Nelson: Songbird
Pearl Jam
The Who: Endless Wire
Phil Manzanera: 50 Minutes Later
David Gilmour: On an Island
Foo Fighters: Skin & Bones

many good choices, but should probably add:
tom waits: orphans
antony & the johnsons: i am a bird now
ditty bops: moon over the freeway

rhyno

Thomj I think you'd like these as my list crosses over with yours quite a bit:
Band Of Horses-Everything All The Time-Sub Pop
Tom Verlaine-Around-Thrill Jockey

I agree with Thom y's list and here's some more:
Carrie Rodriguez "seven angels on a bicycle"
Tres Chicas "bloom,red,and the ordinary girl"
Greg Brown "The evening call"
The be good tanyas "hello love"
Crooked Still " shaken by a low sound"