Lee Ranaldo
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday3 February 1956 (70 years old)
Place of birthGlen Cove, Long Island, New York, USA
Known credits75
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.
She Put Away Her Heart in the Fridge
2026 · Original Music Composer
Peas and Carrots
2025 · Lee
Peas and Carrots
2025 · Songs
Salt Marsh
2025 · Music
The System
2025 · Compositor
Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
2025
Velvet Suite
2023 · himself
Fragments of Paradise
2022 · Self
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
2021 · Camera Operator
We Still Have the Deep Black Night
2019 · Music Producer
Swans: Where Does a Body End?
2019 · Self
Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
2019
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
2019 · Self
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
2019
The Taxidermist
2019 · Original Music Composer
Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
2018 · Music
Desolation Center
2018
Hello Hello Hello: Lee Ranaldo, Electric Trim
2017 · Self
Omega
2016 · Self
Sex and Broadcasting
2014 · Self
Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio
2014 · Himself
The Hardcore Collection
2012 · (archive footage)
Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
2011
Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
2011
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
2010 · Music
Daddy Longlegs
2010 · Stepfather
From the Basement
2009 · Self - Sonic Youth
From The Basement
2009 · Self - Sonic Youth
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009 · Self - Musical Guest
New York Rock at the BBC
2008 · Self - Sonic Youth
365 Day Project
2007 · Self
Noise
2006 · Self
DRIFT
2005 · Music
Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
2005
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
2005 · Self
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
2004 · Self
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
2004
12 O'Clock High: Volumes 1 & 2
2004
Kill Your Idols
2004 · Self
Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
2003 · Performer
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Self - Musical Guest
Demonlover
2002 · Original Music Composer
Things Behind the Sun
2001 · Original Music Composer
Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000
2000
Record Player: Christian Marclay
2000 · Himself
Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth
2000 · Self
Free Tibet
1998 · Self - Sonic Youth
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