Here’s how Jarvis Cocker blind-ranked five Pulp songs: “Hopefully I will get it right”

Pulp boast a discography chock-full of hits, but which is frontman Jarvis Cocker’s “ultimate banger”? Here’s how he blind-ranked five Pulp tracks for NME – check out the Blind Ranking video ahead of the band’s “final musical manifestation for a while” at the Mercury Prize award show this week. READ MORE: ‘Pulp: What Do You Do For An Encore?’ review: Britpop misfits take a deserved victory lap NME caught up with Cocker last month ahead of the London premiere of their documentary film What Do You Do For An Encore?. Our chat with the frontman broached topics from the unique history and DNA of Pulp to what the future looks like for the band. We were also able to get Cocker to rank five of Pulp’s songs in order of greatness, without knowing what track could come up next. The first track presented to Cocker was ‘Spike Island’, which set the tone for the ranking as a whole: “Sounds like I’ve been going to a manifesting workshop or something, but hopefully I will get it right.” The next song to be ranked was ‘Babies’, which “was a big song” for Pulp, according to Cocker. Over three decades after its release, he reaffirms that he’s “proud of the use of the words ‘yeah, yeah, yeah’ in that s...