Lee Ranaldo
Department: Acting
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.
Known For
Velvet Suite
2023
1991: The Year Punk Broke
1992
Kill Your Idols
2004
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
2004
Omega
2016
Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth
2000
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
2003
Record Player: Christian Marclay
2000
Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
1996
Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
2005
Fragments of Paradise
2022
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
2005
From the Basement
2009
Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio
2014
Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach
1995
Don't Bring A Dog
1997
Goo
1991
The Hardcore Collection
2012
Sublapse Video Mag 1
1986
365 Day Project
2007
Daddy Longlegs
2010
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
2004
Desolation Center
2018
Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
2003
Vinyl: An Unlikely History
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Put More Blood Into the Music
1988
Sex and Broadcasting
2014
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
2019
Swans: Where Does a Body End?
2019
12 O'Clock High: Volumes 1 & 2
2004
Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
2019
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
2019
Noise
2006
Hello Hello Hello: Lee Ranaldo, Electric Trim
2017
Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
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The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
1995
New York Rock at the BBC
2008
Submit to Me
1986
Skeeno H.C. Rules
1991
Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
2011
Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000
2000
Free Tibet
1998
Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
1985
Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 1998
1998
Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 2002
2002
Peas and Carrots
2025
Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
2025
Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa
1993
Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
1998
Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
2011
Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
1995
Sonic Youth: 930 Club
1988
Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis
1986
Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996
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Tibetan Freedom Concert
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Late Show with David Letterman
1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993