Artist	Song
Minor Threat	Straight Edge ("Minor Threat" 1981)
Rites Of Spring	For Want Of ("Rites Of Spring", 1986)
Native Nod	Bread
Jawbox	Cutoff
Angel Hair	Witch Hunt Scene From Star Trek
Fugazi	Turnover ("Repeater", 1990)
Jawbreaker	Accident Prone ("Dear You", 1995)
Indian Summer	Wings Of An Angel
Christie Front Drive	Seven Day Candle ("Anthology")
Boys Life	A Quarter's Worth
Sunny Day Real Estate	Seven ("Diary", 1994)
Mineral	If I Could ("Power Of Failing", 1998)
Braid	A Dozen Roses ("Frame And Canvas", 1998)
Texas Is The Reason	A Jack With One Eye ("Do You Know Who You Are?", 1997)
Jimmy Eat World	For Me This Is Heaven ("Clarity", 1999)
The Promise Ring	Happiness Is All The Rage ("Very Emercency", 1999)
The Get Up Kids	Ten Minutes ("Something To Write Home About", 1999)
The Juliana Theory	If I Told You This Was Killing Me, Would You Stop? ("Emotion Is Dead", 2000)
Dashboard Confessional	Screaming Infidelities ("The Swiss Army Romance", 2001)
Bright Eyes	Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh ("Fevers And Mirrors", 2000)
Saves The Day	Freakish ("Stay What You Are", 2003)
Brand New	The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot ("Deja Entendu", 2004)

Comment:

not strictly in chronological order, and obviously people will argue until the end of time about which bands fall under the catagory of "emo", but here's a rough guide to the origin of the species.

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