Blues (disambiguation)
The blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes and a repetitive pattern. The word is also often used in musical contexts to refer to the twelve-bar blues, a particular blues song form, or talking blues, a form of country music.
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Blues or The Blues may also refer to:
Places
- Blue Mountains (Nunavut), sometimes referred to as the Blues, a mountain range in the Canadian territory of Nunavut
People
- Blues Saraceno (born 1971), guitarist and music producer
Art, entertainment, and media
Dance
- Blues dance, a style of social dance done to blues music
Fictional entities
- Blues, the final boss in the video game Yie Ar Kung-Fu
- Proto Man, video game character from the Mega Man series, called Blues in Japan
- The Blues trio, Jim, Jay and Jake from Angry Birds game series
Films
- The Blues (film), documentary series produced by Martin Scorsese
Music
Style
- Blues guitar playing, basics of slide guitar as played by blues musicians
Albums
- Blues (Jimi Hendrix album), compilation album by guitarist Jimi Hendrix
- Blues (Bob Dylan album), a Bob Dylan compilation album
- Blues (Breakout album), studio album by Polish band Breakout
- Blues (Eric Clapton album), a 1999 blues rock album by Eric Clapton
- Blue's, a 1987 album by Zucchero Fornaciari
- Blue;s, a 2018 EP by Mamamoo
- The Blues (B. B. King album), a 1958 blues album by B.B. King
- The Blues, a 1960 blues album by John Lee Hooker
- The Blues (Alex Harvey album), a 1964 album by Alex Harvey
- The Blues (Johnny Hodges album) a 1955 jazz album by Johnny Hodges
- The Blues: Baby Please Don't Go 1935–1951, an album by Big Joe Williams, released in 2003
- The Blues (EP), an EP by Some Girls
- Songs
- The Blues (song), 1990 song by Tony! Toni! Toné!
- "Blues", the sixth movement of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells 2003 album
- "Blues Music", 1994 song by G. Love and Special Sauce on their debut album G. Love and Special Sauce
Other uses
- Blues, a common "placeholder" genre for ID3 tags on MP3 files, and other formats
Law enforcement and military
- Dress blues (disambiguation), the dress uniforms of some law enforcement and military branches
- Jersey Blues, the nickname of the 1st New Jersey Regiment
- Jersey Blues, the nickname of the 50th Armored Division
- Royal Horse Guards, Household Cavalry regiment of the British Army
Organizations
- Blues (Vénetoi), a political faction and associated chariot racing team in the Byzantine empire
- Bleus de Bretagne (Association of Breton Blues), a liberal and anticlerical organization in late 19th century Brittany
Sports
- Blue (university sport), an award won by athletes
"The Blues"
The Blues is a nickname of a number of sporting teams:
- Sturt Double Blues, Australian rules football team in the SANFL
- Carlton Football Club (nickname: the Blues), Australian rules football team in the AFL
- Cleveland Blues (disambiguation), various baseball teams of that former name
- Nashville Blues, a minor league baseball team based in Nashville, Tennessee in 1887
- New South Wales cricket team, also known as the Blues
- Espoo Blues, ice hockey team of Espoo, Finland
- St. Louis Blues, professional NHL ice hockey team based in St. Louis, Missouri
- Blues (Super Rugby), rugby union team based in Auckland
- Cardiff Blues, rugby union team from Wales
- New South Wales rugby league team, also known as the Blues
- The Blues is a nickname of a number of association football clubs:
- Italian national football team is nicknamed "Gli Azzurri", which translates to "The Blues" in Italian
- Waterford United F.C.
- The Blues is a common nickname of a number of British association football clubs:
Technology
- BLUES, the abbreviation for the German "Bremer Luft UEberwachungs System" (which means literally "air monitoring system of Bremen"); it is a monitoring system for air pollution managed by the environmental authority in the German federal state of Bremen
Other uses
- Blue, a colour
- Depression (mood), often referred to as "the blues"
- Butterflies
- Polyommatinae, a subfamily often referred to as "blues"
- Glaucopsyche, a genus often referred to as "blues"
- Plebejus, a genus often referred to as "blues"
- Three different narcotic medications sometimes referred to as "blues" (due to the color of their most frequently prescribed strength)
- Alprazolam (Xanax)
- Diazepam (Valium)
- Oxycodone (Oxycontin/Roxicodone)
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