
Lee Ranaldo
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 | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.238 |
Birthday | 1956-02-03 |
Place of Birth | Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, USA |
Also Known As | Lee Mark Ranaldo, Sonic Youth, |

2023

Velvet Suite
5/2
Lee Renaldo, Pascal Comelade and Ramon Prats perform a legacy-inspired suite on the Velvet Undergroud. Manuel Huerga captured the dress rehearsal and...
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Velvet Suite

1992

1991: The Year Punk Broke
6.7/34
David Markey's documentary of life on the road with Sonic Youth and Nirvana during their tour of Europe in late 1991. Also featuring live performances...
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1991: The Year Punk Broke

2004

Kill Your Idols
7.4/11
A 2004 documentary on thirty years of alternative rock 'n roll in NYC.Documenting the history from the genuine authenticity of No Wave to the current...
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Kill Your Idols

2004

Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
7.7/3
A compilation of 24 music videos by Sonic Youth ranging from 1990 to 2002. Collaborators include Harmony Korine, Spike Jonze, Todd Haynes, Mark Roman...
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Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost

2020

Sonic Youth: From The Basement
0/0
Enjoy Sonic Youth’s full From The Basement set!
Track listing:
01:26 - The Sprawl
10:45 - Incinerate
16:15 - Hey Joni
20:42 - Jams Run Free
24:3...
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Sonic Youth: From The Basement

2016

Omega
6.3/6
Documentary about the revolutionary flamenco-rock album "Omega", composed by maestro Enrique Morente and the Granada group Lagartija Nick in 1996. A g...
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Omega

2000

Silver Rockets/Kool Things: 20 Years of Sonic Youth
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This portrait of the New York band Sonic Youth marking the band’s 20th anniversary covers its history from the beginnings to today. Numerous video cli...
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Silver Rockets/Kool Things: 20 Years of Sonic Youth

2003

Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
0/0
Filmed April 12, 2003 at a benefit concert held at and for The Anthology Film Archives, the international center for the preservation, study, and exhi...
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Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)

2000

Record Player: Christian Marclay
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Christian demonstrates some techniques and preparations and meditates on the turntable, improvisation, and the difference between the sonic and the vi...
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Record Player: Christian Marclay

1996

Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
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Live at Rocknacht, Germany 1996. Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from NewYork City, formed in 1981. In their early career, Sonic Yout...
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Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996

2005

Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
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Sonic Youth's 2005 performance at Les Eurockéennes de Belfort festival, one of France's largest rock music festivals.
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Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes

1986

Death Valley '69
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Death Valley '69 was the first music video by Sonic Youth. The video features the majority of the band in various states of bloody dismemberment inter...
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Death Valley '69

2022

Fragments of Paradise
6.7/3
For over 70 years, Jonas Mekas, internationally known as the "godfather" of avant-garde cinema, documented his life in what came to be known as his di...
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Fragments of Paradise

2005

We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
6.6/16
A feature-length documentary chronicling early '80s punk rock band the Minutemen, from their beginnings in San Pedro, California, to their demise afte...
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We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen

2009

From The Basement
6/2
First DVD release from this refreshingly basic UK music programme puts the music in the foreground with an impressive role call of acts. With sparse p...
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From The Basement

2014

Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio
6.5/2
For over 30 years, Martin Bisi has been recording music from his studio in Gowanus, Brooklyn. He has worked with many influential musicians, including...
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Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio

1995

Blood on the Beach
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Sonic Youth's Blood on the Beach is comprised of two shows and interview clips recorded in November 1985 in Brighton, UK.
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Blood on the Beach

1997

Don't Bring A Dog
0/0
Don't Bring A Dog shows a part of the New York underground music scene - rooted in the early eighties - existing apart from MTV and billboard charts....
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Don't Bring A Dog

1991

Goo
4.8/5
In 1991, a long-form music video version of Goo was released on VHS and LaserDisc. A music video for each song from the album was included; the track...
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Goo

2012

The Hardcore Collection
7.7/3
This DVD features 13 provocative short films by Richard Kern. Color & B&W film shorts with Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins and more. Includes Death Valley...
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The Hardcore Collection

1986

Sublapse Video Mag 1
8/1
Video Fanzine featuring: Half Japanese, Redd Kross with Sky Saxon as Purple Electricity, R Kern, Sonic Youth, White Flag, Psycho Daisies, Charlie Pick...
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Sublapse Video Mag 1

2007

365 Day Project
10/1
This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for...
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365 Day Project

2010

Daddy Longlegs
6.6/43
After months of living a solitary existence, Lenny, 34, picks up his kids from school. Every year he spends a couple of weeks with his sons Sage, 9, a...
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Daddy Longlegs

2004

(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
0/0
While planning the eventual DVD release for "1991: The Year Punk Broke", Dave Markey cut a 40-minute film out of unused footage to create a companion...
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(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale

1991

Sonic Youth - Goo
0/0
Promotional music video collection
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Sonic Youth - Goo

2018

Desolation Center
9.3/3
The untold story of a series of Reagan-era guerrilla punk and industrial desert happenings in Southern California that are now recognized as the inspi...
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Desolation Center

2003

Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
0/0
Quintessential alternative rockers, Sonic Youth, celebrate free-form experimentalism while reinforcing their performance-art driven tradition in this...
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Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage


Vinyl: An Unlikely History
0/0
A documentary about the recent resurgence in sales of vinyl records and its impact on the industry.
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Vinyl: An Unlikely History

1988

Put More Blood Into the Music
7/3
PBS produced documentary in two parts: the first is dedicated to saxophonist and composer John Zorn; the second is about Sonic Youth at the height of...
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Put More Blood Into the Music

2014

Sex and Broadcasting
6.4/14
SEX AND BROADCASTING is a feature length documentary about New Jersey's WFMU, the world's strangest and most unique radio station, and one man's attem...
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Sex and Broadcasting

2019

Daydream Nation
0/0
A concert film of Sonic Youth performing their Daydream Nation album in full at the ABC in Glasgow in 2007.
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Daydream Nation

2019

Swans: Where Does a Body End?
7.75/12
From their roots as a brutal, confrontational industrial band, through breakups and chaos, to their odds-defying current status as one of the most acc...
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Swans: Where Does a Body End?

2004

12 O'Clock High: Volumes 1 & 2
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Ground breaking music videos from some of the most influential bands of the 90s Punk/Grunge scene such as the Flaming Lips, Mudhoney, Bad Brains, Afgh...
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12 O'Clock High: Volumes 1 & 2

2019

Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
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As a fixture of the New York music scene for 30 years, Sonic Youth performed in New York City innumerable times, and served as ersatz cultural ambassa...
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Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond

2019

SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
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A fly-on-the-wall documentary about the recording of the music score by Sonic Youth.
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SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions

2006

Noise
4.8/5
Footage from 2005’s Festival Art Rock in Saint-Brieuc, France, featuring Metric, Sonic Youth, Jeanne Balibar, and other acts.
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Noise

2017

Hello Hello Hello: Lee Ranaldo, Electric Trim
6.7/3
Filmed during dozens of recording sessions, Hello Hello Hello is a story of the creative process - Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth) collaborating with produc...
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Hello Hello Hello: Lee Ranaldo, Electric Trim


Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
10/1
A video documenting Sonic Youth's performance at the Gila Monster Jamboree. Taking place in a remote location in the Mojave Desert, this was the bands...
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Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985

1995

The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
4/2
Comedy troupe The State hosts a Halloween special on CBS.
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The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special

1986

Submit to Me
5.3/20
Cinema of Transgression pioneers and participants (Lydia Lunch, Lung Leg, Nick Zedd, etc.) perform a series of acts as they submit to director Richard...
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Submit to Me

2008

New York Rock at the BBC
6.5/2
Celebrating the cream of the New York rock scene, including classic performances from the Ramones, New York Dolls, Television, Blondie, Lou Reed and m...
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New York Rock at the BBC

1991

Skeeno H.C. Rules
0/0
Sonic Youth play hockey arena w/ Neil Young in Reno, Nevada. Ten years earlier 7 Seconds recorded the earnest hardcore classic "Skins, Brains, & Guts"...
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Skeeno H.C. Rules

2011

Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
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The final Sonic Youth concert
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Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011

2000

Sonic Youth: Live in Rio 2000
0/0
The band performs at the Free Jazz Festival
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Sonic Youth: Live in Rio 2000

1998

Free Tibet
0/0
A film about the Tibetan Freedom Concert in San Francisco in 1996.
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