Except for the songs that made my Top 20 Songs of 2006 and the representative tracks from my Top 20 Albums of 2006, these are the rest of the best mainstream rock tracks of 2006. To be eligible, a song needed to be included on an album released in the United States between December 1, 2005 and November 30, 2006.

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1. Keane “Is It Any Wonder?” Under the Iron Sea (Interscope)

2. Kasabian “Empire” Empire (RCA)

3. AFI “Miss Murder” Decemberunderground (Interscope)

4. The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus “Face Down” Don’t You Fake It (Virgin)

5. My Chemical Romance “This Is How I Disappear” The Black Parade (Reprise)

6. The Strokes “Juicebox” First Impressions of Earth (RCA)

7. Audioslave “Original Fire” Revelations (Epic)

8. Burden Brothers “Still” Mercy (Kirtland)

9. Red Hot Chili Peppers “Especially In Michigan” Stadium Arcadium (Warner Brothers)

10. +44 “When Your Heart Stops Beating” When Your Heart Stops Beating (Interscope)

11. We Are Scientists “Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt” With Love and Squalor (Virgin)

12. The Killers “When You Were Young” Sam’s Town (Island)

13. People In Planes “Moth” As Far As the Eye Can See (Wind-Up)

14. Kasabian “Shoot the Runner” Empire (RCA)

15. The Raconteurs “Steady As She Goes” Broken Boy Soldiers (V2)

16. Red Hot Chili Peppers “Dani California” Stadium Arcadium (Warner Brothers)

17. Audioslave “Revelations” Revelations (Epic)

18. We Are Scientists “The Great Escape” With Love and Squalor (Virgin)

19. The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus “False Pretense” Don’t You Fake It (Virgin)

20. AFI “Summer Shudder” Decemberunderground (Interscope)