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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 3, 1956
Place of Birth
Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Lee Mark Ranaldo
- Sonic Youth
Lee Ranaldo
0.2 Popularity
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
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Lee
Peas and Carrots
2025
0.0
Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
2025
5.0
himself
Velvet Suite
2023
6.5
Self
Fragments of Paradise
2022
7.9
Self
Swans: Where Does a Body End?
2019
🎬
0.0
Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
2019
0.0
Self
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
2019
0.0
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
2019
9.3
Desolation Center
2018
6.7
Self
Hello Hello Hello: Lee Ranaldo, Electric Trim
2017
Credits
Peas and Carrots
as Lee
2025
0.0
Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
2025
0.0
Velvet Suite
as himself
2023
5.0
Fragments of Paradise
as Self
2022
6.5
Swans: Where Does a Body End?
as Self
2019
7.9
🎬
Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
2019
0.0
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
as Self
2019
0.0
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
2019
0.0
Desolation Center
2018
9.3
Hello Hello Hello: Lee Ranaldo, Electric Trim
as Self
2017
6.7
Omega
as Self
2016
6.3
Sex and Broadcasting
as Self
2014
6.0
🎬
Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio
as Himself
2014
6.5
The Hardcore Collection
as (archive footage)
2012
7.7
Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
2011
0.0
Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
2011
0.0
Daddy Longlegs
as Stepfather
2010
6.6
From the Basement
as Self - Sonic Youth
2009
6.0
New York Rock at the BBC
as Self - Sonic Youth
2008
6.5
365 Day Project
2007
10.0
Noise
as Self
2006
4.8
Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
2005
4.5
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
as Self
2005
6.6
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
as Self
2004
0.0
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
2004
5.8
12 O'Clock High: Volumes 1 & 2
2004
0.0
Kill Your Idols
as Self
2004
7.3
Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
as Performer
2003
0.0
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
2003
5.0
Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 2002
2002
0.0
Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000
2000
0.0
Record Player: Christian Marclay
as Himself
2000
0.0
Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth
as Self
2000
0.0
Free Tibet
as Self - Sonic Youth
1998
0.0
Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
1998
0.0
Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 1998
1998
0.0
🎬
Don't Bring A Dog
as Himself
1997
0.0
Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
1996
0.0
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
as Self
1995
3.0
Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
1995
0.0
Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach
as Self
1995
0.0
Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa
1993
0.0
1991: The Year Punk Broke
as Self
1992
6.8
Skeeno H.C. Rules
1991
0.0
Goo
as Self
1991
4.8
Sonic Youth: 930 Club
1988
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Put More Blood Into the Music
as Himself
1988
7.0
Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis
1986
0.0
Sublapse Video Mag 1
1986
8.0
Submit to Me
1986
5.1
Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
1985
0.0
Vinyl: An Unlikely History
as Himself
N/A
0.0
Tibetan Freedom Concert
N/A
0.0
Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
N/A
10.0
Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996
N/A
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