Lee Ranaldo

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

45

Gender

Male

Birthday

1956-02-03 (69 years old)

Place of Birth

Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, USA

Also Known As

  • Lee Mark Ranaldo
  • Sonic Youth

Lee Ranaldo

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

Daddy Longlegs
6.7%

Daddy Longlegs

Apr 28, 2010

Submit to Me
5.3%

Submit to Me

Jan 1, 1986

Sex and Broadcasting
6.4%

Sex and Broadcasting

Nov 15, 2014

Kill Your Idols
7.4%

Kill Your Idols

Apr 8, 2004

Omega
6.3%

Omega

Nov 18, 2016

Goo
4.8%

Goo

Jun 11, 1991

Noise
4.8%

Noise

Jun 15, 2006

Fragments of Paradise
6.7%

Fragments of Paradise

Aug 31, 2022

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Acting

Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
Vinyl: An Unlikely History as Himself
2023
Velvet Suite as himself
2022
Fragments of Paradise as Self
2020
Sonic Youth: From The Basement as self
2019
Swans: Where Does a Body End? as Self
2019
Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
2019
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions as Self
2019
Daydream Nation
2018
Desolation Center
2017
Hello Hello Hello: Lee Ranaldo, Electric Trim as Self
2016
Omega as Self
2014
Sex and Broadcasting as Self
2014
Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio as Himself
2012
The Hardcore Collection as (archive footage)
2011
Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
2010
Daddy Longlegs as Stepfather
2009
From The Basement as Self - Sonic Youth
2008
New York Rock at the BBC as Self - Sonic Youth
2007
365 Day Project
2006
Noise as Self
2005
Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
2005
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen as Himself
2004
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale as Self
2004
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
2004
12 O'Clock High: Volumes 1 & 2
2004
Kill Your Idols as Himself
2003
Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage as Performer
2003
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
2000
Sonic Youth: Live in Rio 2000
2000
Record Player: Christian Marclay as Himself
2000
Silver Rockets/Kool Things: 20 Years of Sonic Youth
1998
Free Tibet as Self - Sonic Youth
1997
Don't Bring A Dog as Himself
1996
Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
1995
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special as Self
1995
Blood on the Beach as Self
1992
1991: The Year Punk Broke as Self
1991
Sonic Youth - Goo as Himself
1991
Skeeno H.C. Rules
1991
Goo as Self
1988
Put More Blood Into the Music as Himself
1986
Sublapse Video Mag 1
1986
Submit to Me
1986
Death Valley '69

Camera

2021
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr. as Camera Operator
1992
1991: The Year Punk Broke as Additional Director of Photography

Directing

1991
Notebook as Director

Sound

2019
We Still Have the Deep Black Night as Music Producer
2019
The Taxidermist as Original Music Composer
2018
Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground as Music
2010
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within as Music
2005
DRIFT as Music
2002
Demonlover as Original Music Composer
2001
Things Behind the Sun as Original Music Composer
1997
SubUrbia as Musician
1996
Frisk as Original Music Composer
1987
Made in U.S.A. as Original Music Composer

Writing

1991
Goo as Writer
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