Lee Ranaldo
Born in Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, USA — Feb 03 1956
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Biography
Lee Mark Ranaldo (born February 3, 1956) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known as a co-founder of the rock band Sonic Youth. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Ranaldo at number 33 on its "Greatest Guitarists of All Time" list. In May 2012, Spin published a staff-selected top 100 guitarist list, ranking Ranaldo and his Sonic Youth bandmate Thurston Moore together at number 1.
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Lee Ranaldo's Credits
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SubUrbia
Sound
Demonlover
Sound
Frisk
Sound
Things Behind the Sun
Sound
Made in U.S.A.
Sound
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
Self
Daddy Longlegs
Stepfather
365 Day Project
Self
Free Tibet
Self - Sonic Youth
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
Camera
From the Basement
Self - Sonic Youth
Submit to Me
DRIFT
Sound
Sex and Broadcasting
Self
Tibetan Freedom Concert
Self
Omega
Self
New York Rock at the BBC
Self - Sonic Youth
1991: The Year Punk Broke
Self
Kill Your Idols
Self
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
Sound
Put More Blood Into the Music
Himself
Peas and Carrots
Lee
Noise
Self
Fragments of Paradise
Self
Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
Swans: Where Does a Body End?
Self
Goo
Self
12 O'Clock High: Volumes 1 & 2
Don't Bring A Dog
Himself
Velvet Suite
himself
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
Self
The System
Crew
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
Hello Hello Hello: Lee Ranaldo, Electric Trim
Self
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
Self
Sublapse Video Mag 1
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
Self
Skeeno H.C. Rules
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth
Self
Notebook
Directing
The Taxidermist
Sound
Sonic Youth: 930 Club
Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
Vinyl: An Unlikely History
Himself
Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 1998
Desolation Center
Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
Sound
We Still Have the Deep Black Night
Sound
Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
Record Player: Christian Marclay
Himself
Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
Salt Marsh
Sound
Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio
Himself
Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 2002
Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000
Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996
Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis
Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
Performer
Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach
Self
Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa
The Hardcore Collection
(archive footage)