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Dinner party music 'unimportant'

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What music would you choose to play in the background during a dinner party? Blue Lines by Massive Attack was the ambience of choice for many in the 1990s, an image which the band spent years trying to shake off.

Pete Paphides, music critic at The Times, and Peter York, author and social commentator, discuss the best and worst dinner party anthems.

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