Greg Dulli first made a name for himself crafting low-fi rock and soul songs about hustlers and heartbreak for Afghan Whigs and Twilight Singers. Dulli is currently one half of a new project called the Gutter Twins (the other half being former Screaming Trees frontman and frequent Queens of the Stone Age collaborator Mark Lanegan). Their debut album Saturnalia (Sub Pop) comes out on March 4, but Dulli provided Rock Daily with a special Valentine’s Day playlist for that special someone in your life today.

John Lee Hooker & Miles Davis, “Coming to Town”
“You have to have a good opener with a strong visual sense for where you’re going on Valentine’s Day. It’s from the Hot Spot soundtrack. That movie was fucking awful, but the soundtrack is fucking fantastic. It’s got a bump and grind to it. You have to balance romance with sex, otherwise it’s just a sissy fest.” (more…)

A Chicago woman is suing a man for “negligent dancing” after he flipped her, dropped her, and cracked her skull at an office party, giving her brain damage. Wonder what song got them so fired up?

“The Last Dance” – Frank Sinatra
“Do You Really Want To Hurt Me” – Culture Club
“I’ll Catch You” – The Get Up Kids
“You Can’t Catch Me” – The Rolling Stones
“Scatterbrain” – Radiohead

Harry Houdini’s great-nephew is preparing to dig the magician up to see if he was actually poisoned. Our playlist says mystery solved: He’s still very much dead.

• “Do You Believe In Magic?” – The Lovin’ Spoonful
• “Harry Houdini” – Paul K
• “Houdini Punches” – Son Volt
• “Dirty Magic” – The Offspring
• “I Can’t Escape” – John Denver

Spring may still feel far away, but Daylight Saving is coming early — and that means an hour less sleep this Saturday night. Some tracks for your clock radio…

• “Daylight Saving Time” – Grandpa Jones
• “Somewhere a Clock Is Ticking” – Snow Patrol
• “In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning” – Frank Sinatra
• “Pushin’ Forward Back” – Temple of the Dog
• “Insomniacs of the World, Good Night” – Gordon Downie

Despite the U.K. trying to get its boys out of Iraq, Prince Harry is shipping off to Basra, insisting he wants to be treated like any other soldier. Since that’s obviously never going to happen, we hope he brought some good music to keep his spirits up…

• “Dirty Harry” – Gorillaz
• “Off He Goes” – Pearl Jam
• “Missing the War” – Ben Folds Five
• “Battle Royal” – Duke Ellington
• “Poor Little Rich Boy” – Regina Spektor

Adding to the most interesting election season since James Garfield gave Roscoe Conkling a steam-powered wedgie, comedian/writer/talk show host Al Franken is running for Senate from Minnesota. What should his campaign song be?

• “The Joker” — Steve Miller Band
• “Runnin’ Down a Dream” – Tom Petty
• “I Ain’t No Joke” – Eric B. & Rakim
• “Get in the Ring” – Guns N’ Roses
• “Feed My Frankenstein” — Alice Cooper

Senator Clinton showed her sense of comic timing this weekend, discussing her “experience dealing with bad and evil men.” But will laughs translate into votes? At least it makes for some good listening…

• “What’d I Say” — Ray Charles
• “More Than Words” — Extreme
• “Slips and Tangles” — The Weakerthans
• “Laugh, I Nearly Died” — The Rolling Stones
• “Let’s Not Pretend To Be New Men” — Crooked Fingers

This weekend Senator Clinton jumped to the top of a crowded field of presidential candidates, meaning we’re all doomed to two years of endless pundit arguments about whether America is ready to elect a woman to the White House. Here are some tunes to drown out the blowhards…

• “Leader of the Pack” — The Shangri-Las
• “President of What?” — Deathcab for Cutie
• “I’m Running” — Yes
• “Candidate” — David Bowie
• “Alvin for President” — Alvin and the Chipmunks

Crude dropped below $50 a barrel for the first time since May 2005, yet gas is still $2.20 a gallon. We’re not saying it’s corporate greed…but our stereo is.

• “Black Gold” — Soul Asylum
• “Running on Empty” — Jackson Browne
• “Out of Gas” — Modest Mouse
• “Tiger in your Tank” — Muddy Waters
• “Profiteers” — Midnight Oil

After Isaiah Washington explained, “I did not call T.R. [Knight] a faggot,” co-star Katherine Heigl responded, “He just needs to not speak in public, period.” Is it Sweeps already?

• “Retarded” — The Afghan Whigs
• “Stupid Boy” — Keith Urban
• “Smells Like Queer Spirit” — Pansy Division
• “Trapped in the Closet” — R. Kelly
• “Homophobes Are Just Pissed ‘Cause They Can’t Get Laid” — Propagandhi

With frozen fruit in California and ice-covered roads from San Antonio to Maine, the rumors of winter’s demise have been greatly exaggerated.

• Ice, Ice Baby — Vanilla Ice
• Your Winter — Sister Hazel
• Ice Storm Blues — Lightnin’ Hopkins
• When Hell Freezes Over — Guttermouth
• Cold as Ice — Foreigner

Sacha Baron-Cohen’s acceptance speech, Tom Hanks’ tribute to Warren Beatty and Prince’s fashionably late arrival – the code word for this year’s Golden Globes was “balls.”

• “Balls Out,” The Bloodhound Gang
• “Big Balls,” AC/DC
• “Great Balls of Fire,” Jerry Lee Lewis
• “Ego-Testicle,” DFI
• “It’s Da Nuts,” The Beatnuts

Bush continues to exceed our expectations in the dumdum department, ordering 20,000 more troops to be deployed in Iraq.

• “Where’s the Freedom?” Subhumans
• “Toy Soldiers,” Martika
• “Youth of America,” Melvins
• “King of Pain,” The Police
• “War Wit Us,” Three 6 Mafia

Pick a welcome home song list for an American sailor lost at sea since Tuesday who was rescued five hundred miles off the tip of South America.

• “Message in a Bottle,” The Police
• “Float On,” Modest Mouse
• “Rescue Me,” Cher
• “Castaway,” Green Day
• “Down by the Water,” PJ Harvey

An Orlando woman set fire to a stuffed animal display at a Walgreen’s because she believed – incorrectly – that she was given incorrect change by a cashier.

• The Prodigy, “Firestarter”
• Talking Heads “Burnin’ Down the House”
• Jimi Hendrix, “Fire”
• Refused, “Burn It”
• The Residents, “Burn Baby Burn”