Blues (disambiguation)
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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.
Blues may also refer to:
- Royal Horse Guards (The Blues), Household Cavalry regiment of the British Army
- Blues, video game character from the Mega Man series
- The Blues, documentary series produced by Martin Scorsese
- A depressed mood is often referred to as the blues
- Blues dance, a style of social dance done to blues music
- Blues, a play about the homeless in America.
- Polyommatinae, a butterfly subfamily, often referred to as "Blues"
- Valium pills are sometimes referred to as "blues" in street slang.
- Blues, a political party in the Byzantine empire. Their rivals were the Greens.
- Blue Mountains, a mountain range in Nunavut, Canada
- Association of Breton Blues, a liberal and anticlerical organization in late 19th century Brittany.
[edit] Music
- Blues, compilation album by guitarist Jimi Hendrix
- The Blues, 1999 compilation by Eric Clapton
- Blues, a Bob Dylan compilation album
- Blues Saraceno (born 1971), guitarist and producer
- "The Blues (song)", 1990 song by Tony! Toni! Toné!
- "Blues", the sixth movement of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells 2003 album
[edit] Sports
- Blues (Super rugby franchise), Super 14 rugby union team based in Auckland
- Cardiff Blues, rugby union team from Wales
- Carlton Blues, Australian rules football team in the AFL
- Cleveland Blues, various baseball teams of that former name
- Espoo Blues, ice hockey team of Espoo, Finland
- Les bleus (the blues) is the nickname for the French national association football team and French national rugby union team
- Nashville Blues, a minor league baseball team based in Nashville, Tennessee in 1887
- New South Wales Blues, first class cricket team in Australia
- St. Louis Blues (hockey), professional NHL ice hockey team based in St. Louis, Missouri
- Sturt Double Blues, Australian rules football team in the SANFL
- The Blues is a nickname of a number of British association football clubs:
- The Blues, nickname for the New South Wales Rugby League team
- University Sporting Blue, an award won by athletes at Oxford and Cambridge; "Blues" are the participants in The Boat Race