J-Tull Dot Com is the name of an album by the band Jethro Tull, released on August 24, 1999.

Released 4 years after the 1995 album Roots to Branches.

Tracks

1. "Spiral"
2. "Dot Com"
3. "Awol"
4. "Nothing At All"
5. "Wicked Windows"
6. "Hunt By Numbers"
7. "Hot Mango Flush"
8. "El Niño"
9. "Black Mamba"
10. "Mango Surprise"
11. "Bends Like A Willow"
12. "Far Alaska"
13. "The Dog-Ear Years"
14. "A Gift Of Roses"

J TULL DOT COM carries a number of distinctions for Jethro Tull. Firstly, it is their last lp of the 20th Century. Secondly, it is their 20th studio album (excluding Living in the Past, 1972, as this was a compilation). While the title of the CD is lamentable (as well as the somewhat dreadful cover art of a sketchy Pan like creature, kneeling with genitalia adangle, neatly removed for US release) as a rather poor attempt at summoning hits on their website, this CD has aged quite well as a formidable and listenable addition to Tull's discography. As most fans will admit, Tull has a few clunkers here and there; this one will not be remembered as such. With such riffy rockers as "Hunt by Numbers" and "Spiral" as well as nicer, more compositional pieces as "Bends like a Willow" and "Wicked Windows," this CD does stand the test of repeated listening. Having long-standing guitarist Martin Barre's muscle up front with Ian's ever-strong flauting is always good policy for the group. And while it seems every Tull CD contains some stuff that just doesn't quite work (here's it's the rather pointless "Hot Mango Flush" and its sister reprise "Mango Surprise"), it doesn't seem to matter, as frontman/flautist/Svengali type Ian Anderson's likes and dislikes are always entertainingly purveyed, even in pieces that conceptually are quite dated. This CD also carried the distinction of being the first CD that current (2005) bass player Johnathan Noyce plays on. Also it is the first release of Tull NOT on their flagship Chrysalis Records, which really is a rather good stroke by Anderson in retrospect, as CD sales are changing in form, and on the smaller label, Tull retains (hopefully) more control. DOT-COM is really quite a good CD of Tull's and while it may not move heavy hitters like 'Minstrel in the Gallery' and 'Heavy Horses' out of anyone's top 5 favorites, or doesn't even have the 'classic' potential of 95s 'Roots to Branches,' it could very well be seen as better than some of their more contrived work of the early 80s.