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Lee Ranaldo
Glen Cove, United States • b. 1956-02-03
Lee Ranaldo is credited on 545 releases across 253 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1981–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
545
Pressings credited
253
Albums
5
Decades active
711
In collections
Biography
Lee Mark Ranaldo (born February 3, 1956) is an American musician, singer and songwriter best known as guitarist and vocalist of alternative 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.
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Credited work
545 releases · 253 albums · active 1981–2026
- Performance · 583
- Other credits · 148
- Production · 100
- Engineering · 68
- Mastering · 3
Studios: BC Studio · Fun City · Echo Canyon (2) · Wharton's Studio
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Daydream Nation
1988
Goo
1990
Dirty
1992
You're Living All Over Me
1987
Judgment Night (Music From The Motion Picture)
1993
Evol
1986
Washing Machine
1995
Sister
1987
Experimental Jet Set, Trash And No Star
1994
At War With The Mystics
2006
Murray Street
2002
Rather Ripped
2006
Bad Moon Rising
1985
A Thousand Leaves
1998
Sonic Nurse
2004
Versions Of Modern Performance
2022
No Alternative
1993
The Eternal
2009
The Whitey Album
1989
NYC Ghosts & Flowers
2000
Confusion Is Sex
1983
Pump Up The Volume (Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
1990
Sonic Youth
1982
Ear-Bleeding Country: The Best Of Dinosaur Jr.
2001
Frequent collaborators
- Sonic Youth
- Various
- You Am I
- Babes In Toyland
- Glenn Branca
- Branca
- Sonic-Youth
- Dinosaur Jr.
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