Not only do Hit The Lights warm up to the sweet sweet sounds of Polar Bear Club... and Mariah Carey, but they also invite you to join the wide, weird world of the Sandwich Punch Club, which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. Sorry if you were expecting some kind of reading-is-fun book club involving Jared from Subway. You punch a Sloppy Joe, and joke's on you.

After the jump, watch Lima, Ohio's favorite fivesome share five of their freakiest obsessions, and don't miss them -- or an opportunity to punch them between two slices of bread -- this summer on Warped Tour.

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Dudes, if you thought Brüno's balls in Eminem's face at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards was dirty... well... wait... it was... But we here at MTV have seen dirtier stuff before. Like Christina Aguilera in assless chaps. (Need a reference point? See below.) Or Taking Back Sunday covered in tar in their "Sink Into Me" video. The Foo Fighters covered in red paint. Christina Milian covered in God knows what. And some of our favorite bands -- Hit the Lights, The Cab, Mutemath, Weezer, and more -- have gotten covered in food, paint, pie, and more dirty, messy, filthy, in some all-out gross-out videos.

So check out 10 of the dirtiest music videos of all time -- some sexy, some sloppy, and some straight-up sick. (Uh, Primus, anyone?)

Christina Milian -- "Dip It Low" -- Sloppy can be sexy! Christina Milian writhed around in... chocolate fondue? Black paint? Ink?... in her 2004 "Dip It Low" video while teaching you how to "pop that thang."
+ Watch "Dip It Low"

Menomena -- "Rotten Hell" -- Never before has a food fight looked so elegant nor spaghetti looked so beautiful flying through the air in slow motion like in Menomena's 2007 "Rotten Hell" video. Seriously, this is less food fight, more ballet. And that blonde kid had it coming. Dude, gimmie some of your tots!
+ Watch "Rotten Hell"

Christina Aguilera -- "Dirrty" -- "Dirrty" is the granddaddy of the dirty music video! You get Christina Aguilera in assless chaps, Redman bringing up the rear, and a panoply of fantastic, orgiastic attributes, like furries, fighters, and masturbatory moves. Another word for it? WIN.
+ Watch "Dirrty"

Foo Fighters -- "The Pretender" -- Things start out tense but basically okay in the Foo Fighters' 2007 "The Pretender" video, until about halfway through the song, when the po-po get a little too close for comfort, and the Foos retaliate with a s++storm of red paint. Dave Grohl has alluded to the song being politically motivated, but if you play it backwards, you can hear "I hate Courtney Love" (speaking of messes) plain as the nose on your face.
+ Watch "The Pretender"

The Cab -- "Bounce" -- The Cab's 2008 "Bounce" video is basically Art History 101 -- it features a not-so-subtle Andy Warhol (actually a Patrick Stump cameo), and by the end of the video, the set looks like a Jackson Pollock.
+ Watch "Bounce"

Hit The Lights -- "Drop The Girl" --  Skip school, start fights, stay in school, start food fights! Bonus: cleavage, pizza, House Of Holland-inspired message blocky tees! Killer.
+ Watch "Drop The Girl"

Primus -- "My Name Is Mud" -- Primus' 1993 "My Name Is Mud" video is an absolute classic. Just ask Beavis & Butthead. Les Claypool in a lounge lizard suit, hulkin' fat dudes taking mud baths, dead bodies, Bob Cock drinking pork soda, and a seriously nasty drum and bass line. It doesn't get dirtier than Primus.
+ Watch "My Name Is Mud"

Weezer -- "Troublemaker" -- It's no "Buddy Holly" or "Pork & Beans," but Weezer's "Troublemaker" is a three-minute-long parking lot nerd Olympics, complete with a crapton of nacho cheese, 223 people on air guitar, and the world's smallest, and it all culminates in an epic pie fight. Oh yeah, and Rivers Cuomo gets dressed up like Limp Bizkit-era Fred Durst and rhymes "beyatch" with "kids." It's great!
+ Watch "Troublemaker"

+ More dirty music videos after the jump!

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Hit The Lights clearly didn't have a very good time in high school. The hard-hitting Lima, Ohio five-piece that takes its name from a track on Metallica's Kill 'Em All appears to be working out some old aggression in brand-new video, "Drop The Girl." Basically it's a revenge fantasy that takes aim at every bitter dude's favorite target: cruel hot chicks, AKA chicks out of their league. Oh, and the album is called Skip School, Start Fights. Hit The Lights, WHAT WENT WRONG???

But wait... Look at Hit The Lights. Burly arms, straight teeth, nice hats... They're kinda studly, right? What do they have to complain about? And not only that, but they're about to hit the road with 3OH!3, The Maine and way more of your favorite bands on the 2009 AP Tour. Girls love dudes in bands on big tours! I mean, don't you? Girls? Here, watch "Drop The Girl." Hit The Lights is waiting for you.

+ Exclusive Hit The Lights photo session!

(Credit: Brian Sheffield)

We never knew it was possible to be on a first-name basis with the great outdoors. 'Course, that was before we saw the guys from Hit the Lights celebrate nature -- and become one with their surroundings -- by standing over a peaceful, zenlike landscape and quietly admiring the view screaming "HI MOUNTAIN!!!" at the top of their lungs.

And for those of you who are less "nature freaks" and more "freaks of nature," HTL's latest tour blog also includes tons of randomness (Think: Fargo accents, burfdays and white people dancing) plus a live performance of "Count It!" and flashbacks to their scary (Read: partially naked) Halloween show.

So check it out, plus give the guys a proper sendoff (They're heading for the U.K., 'member?) by catching up on all three tour diaries past. Hope those bloody Brits loik their U.S. pop punkahs-- and hope Omar Zehery's $49 jacket survives the fr-fr-freezing European winter.

Last week, we told you all about our crazy red carpet adventures at the 2008 mtvU Woodie Awards. And in addition to stalking Locksley's publicist, making moony-eyes at Boys Like Girls' Martin Johnson and gulping down a seriously unhealthy amount of mini sliders, we also managed to score killer seats to the show.

Which means we had an un-frickin'-believable view of Lykke Li and All Time Low's performances, Paramore's acceptance speech (Oh, like you didn't already know they won) and Santogold's Aladdin-meets-Purple Rain parachute pants.

So check out a few more pics from the show (and yes, that's Hit The Lights making the most of the beer pong table) and tune in tonight on mtvU to catch the entire thing!

Meanwhile, for those of you who demand instant gratification (as in, you can't wait another SECOND without knowing whether or not There For Tomorrow got wood) here's a list of all the big winners.

+ Plus, head over to the official Woodies site at mtvU.com to flip through the show highlights. And check back soon to catch the full performances online.

After chatting it up with Hit The Lights' buddies Motion City Soundtrack at last night's Woodie Awards (more about that later! Promise!) we were super psyched to see they'd already sent us their latest tour diary. Turns out, the boys have been soaking up the sun, sharing "energy drinks" with Forever the Sickest Kids, and getting ready to spare some innocent possums' lives (it'll make sense in a sec) by ditching the van...and heading to the U.K.

So check out what our main man Nick Thompson -- also known (to himself) as "St. Nicholas" -- had to say about kicking it in Florida and chowing down on tasty pastry, plus peep the HTL portrait that the guys are calling "one of the most amazing things we've ever seen."

Oh Sh*t, shake dat ass mah and WHAT IS UP PEEPS?! I'm typing from the back of our van (a.k.a. The Possum Destroyer - and yeah, she's eaten a possum or two) chilling before our show at The Red Door in Pensacola, Florida. YEE EFFIN' HAH!

We had a day off from the Sassy Back tour and decided we wanted to play some mo'. Florida weather has been good to us thus far -- it feels amazing out right now, let's keep it up huh? Tomorrow we'll be rejoining the tour again so no worries. I think some of the boyz in FTSK are coming down tonight to hang, EXCELLENT CHOICE if I do say so myself (and I do!).

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(Credit:  Ben Ritter)

Hey there, guys and ghouls! Tomorrow's Halloween, and since we're too old to go trick-or-treating (and too young to not care) we're kicking things off with a super-spooky Hit the Lights tour diary. And having (finally!) recovered from that cafeteria melee, the guys are back to tell us their spookiest Halloween memories, fess up to their fave scary movies and let us know where they're gonna be on October 31st (Hint: It rhymes with "BEGAS, VABY, BEGAS!")

So if you're anywhere near Sin City tomorrow night, dress your dogs in something awesome, and show your love for Hit the Lights! Otherwise, sit back, enjoy the guys' third installment from the road and find out which HTLer's still haunted (so to speak) by the Halloween he spent in green face paint and a pair of undies.

+ HTL rewind! Catch up on the guys' first and second tour diaries now! Y'know, unless you're a Halloweenie...

If the theme of last week's tour diary was self-pedicures and high-speed hotel chases, this time around it's all about "wicked-ass food fights" and partying like a rock star teenager. Yep, according to giant-haired guitarist, Omar Zehery, the members of Hit the Lights are "gonna pretend like they're in high school" for their new video, "Drop the Girl." And judging by the proliferation of paddles, Playmates and gaping head wounds, it doesn't seem like the guys are having much trouble getting into character.

Watch frontman Nick Thompson (almost) run out of gas in the treacherous mountain ranges of ... Southern California(?) and perfect his stage-diving in these behind-the-scenes shots from HTL's latest video shoot. Oh, and be extra nice to Omar the next time you see him -- after all, it can't be easy getting your face rearranged on camera. Or admitting you just totally got your ass kicked by a plate of mashed potatoes.

(Credit: Ben Ritter)

We always knew it'd be awesome to see Hit the Lights on tour. With their crazy-insane energy, we figured they'd pretty much be bouncing off the walls nonstop. And we were basically right. From wildin' out on stage to racing around hotels, there's a good chance these guys have a perma-IV of PomX Iced Coffee pulsing through their veins. In fact, they're so revved up that the idea of a day off is pretty much a foreign concept: How else to explain the icky self-pedicure and plans to spend their 24-hour vacay in Dirty Jerz?

Watch Hit the Lights' first video tour diary, and keep an eye out for the bonus footage of their fellow tourmates: Motion City Soundtrack, Chiodos and Person L.

Plus, check out their cray-cray video interview, and give the guys props for making it all the way from Johnson City, NY to New Haven, CT without killing each other once.

(Credit: Ben Ritter)

If you've never heard of Hit the Lights, now's your chance to jump on the (emo) bandwagon. Find out when the group was formed ("Two thousand...three?") the real story behind their name (Hint: It has nothing to do with Christian Slater) and why they -- like Forever the Sickest Kids -- shun sports drinks in favor of human urine. Then catch up on all things HTL by checking out these exclusive band photos, watching their latest vid, "Stay Out," and reading up on their fun-lovin' tour buddies, All Time Low.