Watch Springsteen, Madonna, More Hope for Haiti Performances

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MTV has posted videos of all 19 performances from tonight's Hope for Haiti Now telethon on their Website. Read about the show's big team-ups and cover songs in our live blog, and watch a selection of the best songs here (check out the rest at MTV). As we reported earlier, all the performances will be available for sale on iTunes, and later the Amazon MP3 store and Rhapsody, with proceeds going to benefit Haiti relief. (Note: all the videos are set to auto-play, so hit pause or mute to end the cacophony!):

Hope for Haiti Now: check out photos from the all-star telethon.

Bruce Springsteen - "We Shall Overcome":

Madonna - "Like a Prayer":

Jay-Z, Rihanna, Bono and The Edge - "Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)":

Dave Matthews and Neil Young - "Alone and Forsaken":

Justin Timberlake - "Hallelujah":

For more of Rolling Stone's ongoing coverage of the music industry's response to the crisis in Haiti, check out the following stories:

• Inside the Recording of Bono and Jay-Z's Haiti Single "Stranded"
• Dave Matthews Band, Lady Gaga and More Stars Rock to Aid Haiti
• Radiohead Announce Haiti Benefit Show in Los Angeles
• Rihanna Covers Bob Marley's "Redemption Song" for Haiti Relief

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Song Stories

“V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F.”

Fishbone | 1985

Quite a few musicians have utilized initials for song titles -- Michael Jackson's "P.Y.T.," Abba's "S.O.S.," Donald Fagen's "I.G.Y.," etc. But the more curiously initialed tune has to be "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F.," short for "Voyage to the Land of the Freeze-Dried Godzilla Farts." Fishbone's original guitarist, Kendall Jones, explained to Rolling Stone, "When Norwood [Fisher] wrote it, he introduced it to the band saying, 'Man, I've been hearing about all these Nazi right-wing groups on the news saying the Holocaust was staged. So what if America said it never dropped two atom bombs on Japan, that it was actually Godzilla popping a couple off?' Only Norwood would come up with something that out." The same year "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F." was released, the film Godzilla 1985 appeared in North America.

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