Fry yr brain into a big pulp of nothing, nada, attempting to spit on this man's rep: Lee Ranaldo

And he can pen a song or two to boot.

"eric's trip" : "west la fadeaway"

some of the spoken word/noise solo stuff has its moments. I really like Amarillo Ramp (for Robert Smithson).

ok, so what would this tape include? On top of my head:

In The Kingdom #19
Pipeline/Kill Time
Eric's Trip
Hey Joni
Rain King
Mote
Wish Fulfillment
Saucer-Like
Skip Tracer
Hoarfrost
Karen Koltrane
NYC Ghosts & Flowers
Karen Revisited

Am I forgetting anything? How would you mix it then? I'd say chronologically, cuz we're talking history here

you could also include the cover of "Within You Without You" and stuff like "I Dreamed I Dream" and "Unwind", where Lee kind of shares lead vox w/ Kim or Thurston, respectively. and I'd probably throw the Goo-era instrumental "The Notorious Rockin' Lee" in there too. it would probably have to be 2 discs to fit all the longer songs anyway, may as well go buckwild.

I'd sequence the mix something like this:

Skip Tracer
Eric's Trip
Genetic
Hoarfrost
Wish Fulfillment
Pipeline/Kill Time
NYC Ghosts & Flowers
Hey Joni
In The Kingdom #19
Mote
Saucerlike
Rain King
Karen Revisted
Karen Koltrane
The Notorious Rockin' Lee

That muppet thing is uncanny.

Or better yet, Kim and Thurston find it.

has anyone picked up the recent music for film or whatever its called?

It's more than that! Basically just read the bio, which is easily one of the best nonfiction books in general I've read, not just a 'rock' book by any means. By the end of it you'll want to make Lori Barbero your personal heroine, just for being so great.

I'll never be able to get over how goddamn great this song is...

Lee = God

http://www.lepoissonrouge.com/lpr_events/peoples-bailout/

Lee Ranaldo on the Grateful Dead's legendary, long-lost 1972 concert doc Sunshine Daydream

http://thetalkhouse.com/features/view/lee-ranaldo-the-grateful-deads-long-lost-concert-documentary-sunshine-daydr

that was a great read and i'm curious to hear if his Dead love really does translate into something for his new solo album

Probably the wrong thread for this, but the melody of Diamond Sea sounds uncannily like the Velvets' I'll be Your Mirror

http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1021-how-vinyl-and-lee-ranaldo-turned-a-lost-70s-act-into-tvs-next-great-fictional-band/

Thought the first episode of Vinyl was lame but this aspect has me still interested a bit in the show:

To replicate that immediacy, Poster turned to one of his rock'n'roll heroes: Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo. He tasked Ranaldo with recording the songs of Jack Ruby and other bands depicted in "Vinyl" for its soundtrack, and in turn, Ranaldo called on an array of current musicians to help. "Randy likes the idea of bringing a lot of people into the game," says Ranaldo, who previously worked with Poster on Todd Haynes’ Bob Dylan bio-fantasy I’m Not There. "All the different people we’ve had—tons of musicians coming in and out—have made it exciting."
Ranaldo, whose ex-bandmate has also notably praised Jack Ruby, put together a band with bassist James McNew (of Yo La Tengo), drummer Steve Shelley (also of Sonic Youth), and guitarists Alan Licht and Don Fleming. When you watch the Nasty Bits raging away in a scene, you’re actually hearing Ranaldo’s band backing up singer James Jagger (yes, Mick’s son), who portrays Bits frontman Kip Stevens. Of course, Ranaldo and company are out of the age range of the show's fictional group of disheveled twenty-somethings, so Poster and his colleague Meghan Currier hired some actual musicians to play Jagger’s backing band: Brooklyn’s Beach Fossils.