"The 1990s had a steady flow of emocore music nipping at its heels, and there was nothing like the legendary Jimmy Eat World to bring in the trend of emo lovers to the 2000s. The fun-loving post grunge rock band may not have eaten the world, but they sure conquered it (on the music scene, anyway) in the late ‘90s and early ‘00s. Jimmy Eat World was everything a youngster's rock band is supposed to be - energetic, angsty and honest - and the incredible following they garnered from their short but extremely successful musical career is a tale for the history books.Jimmy Eat World was birthed in Mesa, Arizona in 1994 to the proud parents Jim Adkins (vocals/guitar), Zach Lind (drums), Tom Linton (guitar/vocals) and Mitch Porter (bass). The group's obscure band name came from Linton's younger brothers Ed and Jimmy, who had a knack for fighting each other. The younger and plumper Jimmy usually emerged victorious from these battles, and a drawing Ed sketched one day that showed Jimmy shoving the world into his mouth brought about the name Jimmy Eat World. Classifying themselves as a punk rock act with influences like early Def Leppard and Velvet Underground, the eclectic Jimmy Eat World started out on the local Mesa circuit before issuing EPs in the mid-‘90s. After releasing ""One, Two, Three, Four"" and ""Back from the Dead Mother Fucker,"" Capital Records caught on to the punk-pop act and signed them to a record deal.By the late 1990s, Jimmy Eat World was a household name amongst American teenagers, and eventually news of the rock band caught wind overseas, as well. Songs like ""The Middle"" and ""Sweetness"" sealed the band's fate in the early 2000s, and the group's most recent album, Chase This Light, came out in 2007 and is still making waves on the music scene and Billboard charts."