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 |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.1238 |
| 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
6.757/37
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
7.5/13
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
6.167/6
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
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
0/0
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)
5/2
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
0/0
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
0/0
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
4.5/1
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
2022
Fragments of Paradise
6.5/4
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
6.735/17
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
Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach
0/0
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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Sonic Youth: 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
5.7/6
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
6.6/57
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
7/1
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
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
7.75/4
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
6/16
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
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
0/0
A concert film of Sonic Youth performing their Daydream Nation album in full with a bonus encore of Rather Ripped songs at the ABC in Glasgow in 2007.
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Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
2019
Swans: Where Does a Body End?
7.9/14
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
0/0
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
0/0
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
10/1
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
4/4
Comedy troupe The State hosts a Halloween special on CBS.
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The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
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
1986
Submit to Me
5.318/22
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
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
0/0
The final Sonic Youth concert
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Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
2000
Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000
0/0
The band performs at the Free Jazz Festival
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Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000
1998
Free Tibet
8/1
A film about the Tibetan Freedom Concert in San Francisco in 1996.
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Free Tibet
1985
Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
0/0
This was a concert video released thru Sonic Death, filmed on January 5th, 1985 in the Mojave Desert. This was SY's first west coast excursion.
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Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
1998
Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 1998
0/0
Rockpalast Festival, Lorelei, Germany
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Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 1998
2002
Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 2002
0/0
July 11, 2002 E-Werk Cologne, Germany
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Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 2002
2025
Peas and Carrots
0/0
New York-based 16-year-old Joey Wethersby's parents were part of a 1990s one-hit wonder band. After encouraging her parents to start a new band, Joey...
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Peas and Carrots
2025
Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
0/0
Sonic Youth in 1991 on Neil Young's Smell the Horse tour, captured by Crazy Horse Guitar/Bass Tech Mondo aka Armando Garcia.
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Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
1993
Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa
0/0
Sonic Youth's first concert in Portugal.
Recorded Live at Campo Pequeno Lisbon, Portugal July 14, 1993
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Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa
1998
Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
0/0
Concert given by Sonic Youth on Friday, August 7, 1998, as part of the Benicàssim International Festival. Broadcast on Sputnik Concert (Channel 33) a...
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Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
2011
Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
0/0
The second last show on Sonic Youth's sad final stanza, a festival tour of South America that eventually took them to Chile for the Maquinaria Festiva...
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Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
1995
Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
0/0
All of the band 80's music videos along with some live performances
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Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
1988
Sonic Youth: 930 Club
0/0
Proshot footage from the band's 1988 tour.
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Sonic Youth: 930 Club
1986
Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis
0/0
Rare proshot from 1986
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Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis
Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996
0/0
June 16, 1996 Golden Gate Park San Francisco
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Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996
Tibetan Freedom Concert
0/0
Documentary surrounding the festival.
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