![]() ![]() Highlights: “The Morning” - the Weeknd “Words I Don’t Remember” - How to Dress WellĪnother forgotten Spotify playlist from 2015 that’ll leave you wondering how many times can you put Frank Ocean on the same playlist. “Jazzy Dinner” gets points for offering some relatively deep cuts, but unless your friends enjoy lengthy discussions of postmodern literature over apéritifs, you’ll look like you’re trying too hard. Highlights: “Time After Time” - John Coltrane “Let’s Fall in Love” - Stan Getz ![]() It’s the equivalent of the “college jams” playlist that’s been lingering in your Spotify since 2010. Plus it gets its name from a German food-delivery company. This long-forgotten dinner playlist from 2015 plays more like a Top 40 radio station from 2010 than the soundtrack to a nice dinner. Highlights: “Ordinary People” - John Legend “Make You Feel My Love” - Adele In other words, 45 songs high on emozione. The perfect playlist for the nights you want to re-create the red-sauce experience at home: You won’t find “Mambo Italiano” or “Tarantella Napoletana.” Instead, there’s a great mix of songs by classic Italian singers (Giacomo Rodinella, Giuseppe Di Stefano) alongside Italian-American singers like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Vic Damone, Bobby Darin, and Tony Bennett. Highlights: “Volare” - Dean Martin “Primo Amore” - Carlo Buti Unless you’re hosting a Great Gatsby party, this kitschy playlist will wear on your guests fast. There’s the wide-eyed, orchestral love songs of Cole Porter and Russ Colombo and jittery, upbeat tunes that once backed the Charleston, but that’s about the breadth of it. ![]() Highlights: “Wolverine Blues” - Jelly Roll Morton “Ain’t She Sweet” - Gene Austinįlapper music is charming. (Ten of the songs featured on this playlist contain the word chill.) Unless they’re actively rolling, no dinner-party guests will enjoy this mix. There’s such a thing as dinner playlists that are so niche as to be odd, and this is that playlist, which would be a better fit for a yoga retreat than a Saturday-night get-together. Highlights: “To Judge” - Far Ocean “Retrouvailles” - Ooyy If you play this and don’t fit into any of these categories, your guests will definitely think you’re trying too hard. The only people who play classical music at a dinner party are (1) actual classical musicians, (2) serial killers, or (3) the cast of Succession. 15 in F-minor” - Fréderic Chopin “String Quartet in D-major” - Felix Mendelssohn This is basically four and a half uninterrupted hours of lullabies, so your dinner will be very chill. Recently divorced dads may love it, but for everyone else, the Ugly Kid Joe cover of “Cats in the Cradle” is probably best left unheard. Highlights: “Don’t Speak” - No Doubt “Wait For Me” - Kings of Leonĭespite the name, this playlist is actually all about power ballads. The only time anyone will appreciate the songs here - “As Long As You Love Me”? An extremely earnest Richard Marx ballad? Five different Ed Sheeran songs? - would be after that last bottle of wine has been drained and you’re looking for some DIY karaoke material. Highlights: “Love” - Lana Del Rey “Friends” - Francis and the Lights and Bon IverĪ playlist that includes Enrique Iglesias’s “Hero” and “I Knew I Loved You,” by Savage Garden, is the exact opposite of romantic. So Grub sorted through all of them and ranked them based on some admittedly subjective measurements - mood-setting ability, variety of genres, and likelihood to not draw too much attention away from the dinner party itself - putting them in order of “vibes.” Here, how the playlists stacked up. Spotify knows that when you have friends over for dinner and some drinks, you will need music: The music-streaming platform has 22 official dinner-party playlists, all of them wildly varying in quality. ![]()
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