If I had to make a 36 song playlist...

This is what I'd choose:

1. Is There a Ghost - Band of Horses
2. Perfect Games - Broken West
3. Carry the Zero - Built to Spill
4. Marching Bands of Manhattan - Death Cab for Cutie
5. The Sound of Settling - Death Cab for Cutie
6. Tiny Vessels - Death Cab for Cutie
7. 405 - Death Cab for Cutie
8. Scientist Studies - Death Cab for Cutie
9. Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra
10. Feeling the Moment - Feeder
11. Damaged Goods - Gang of Four
12. Lately - The Helio Sequence
13. Evil - Interpol
14. The World at Large - Modest Mouse
15. Gravity Rides Everything - Modest Mouse
16. Always Love - Nada Surf
17. Moth's Wings - Passion Pit
18. Sleepyhead - Passion Pit
19. Strange Condition - Pete Yorn
20. Lisztomania - Phoenix
21. 1901 - Phoenix
22. High and Dry - Radiohead
23. Bullet Proof - Radiohead
24. Let Down - Radiohead
25. Karma Police - Radiohead
26. Lucky - Radiohead
27. Lake Michigan - Rogue Wave
28. Publish My Love - Rogue Wave
29. Love's Lost Guarantee - Rogue Wave
30. Be Kind-Remind - Rogue Wave
31. Caring is Creepy - The Shins
32. New Slang - The Shins
33. All I Want to Do - Sugarland
34. Modern World - Wolf Parade
35. Forever Young - Youth Group
36. Start Today Tomorrow - Youth Group