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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.

Blues or The Blues may also refer to:

People

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

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

Other uses

  • Blues, a common "placeholder" genre for ID3 tags on MP3 files, and other formats

Law enforcement and military

Organizations

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 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:

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)

See also

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