Tonight's show is our annual countdown of the best progressive music of 2007. We've got the Top 11 albums of the year, as well as the Tops in other catagories (made-up and otherwise). Always fun, always controversial, we bring you the Best (and worst) of the past 12 months:

ProgRockRecords Best Release of 2007: Dial - Synchronized (track played: Green Knees)

Best Live CD of 2007: The Tangent - Going Off On One (track played: Forsaken Cathedrals)

Best Live DVD of 2007: David Gilmour - Remember That Night (track played: Fat Old Sun)

Worst Kept Secret in Progski: Wojtek Szadkowski is Peter, vocalist of Peter Pan - Days (track played: Flying Over Paradise)

Best Female Vocalist to leave band and return in new band: Anneke van Gierbergen; Agua de Annique - Air (track played: Day After Yesterday)

Trippiest Surprise of 2007; Best MySpace submission of 2007: The Unknownn - Unknownn (track played: Raw)

WTF were they thinking; Worst Album; Worst Song of 2007: Marillion - Somewhere Else (track played: Most Toys)

#11: Knight Area - Under A New Sign (track played: Dreamweaver)
#10: Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement (track played: Beyond The Eyelids)
# 9: The Reasoning - Awakening (track played: Sacred Shape);
Worst Kept Secret; Most highly anticipated return to prog scene by a female vocalist: Rachel Jones joins The Reasoning
# 8: (and Best Prog Cover for 2007): Glass Hammer - Culture Of Ascent (track played: South Side Of The Sky)
# 7: (and Best Psychedelic Album of 2007): The Future Kings Of England - The Fate Of Old Mother Orvis (track played: Mustard Men)
# 6: Blackfield - II (tracks played: 1,000 People, Miss U)
# 5: Mermaid Kiss - Etarlis (track played: The City Of Clouds [Quay-Lin])
Best Female Vocal Performance of 2007 - Evelyn Downing
# 4: (and Best Progski Album of 2007): Quidam - Alone Together (tracks played: Different, Kinds Of Solitude At Night, Depicting Colours Of Emotions)
# 3: Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet (tracks played: My Ashes, Sentimental, Way Out Of Here)
# 2: Antimatter - Leaving Eden (tracks played: Redemption, Another Face In A Window, Leaving Eden, The Immaculate Misconception)
Best Male Vocal Performance of 2007: Mick Moss
# 1: Phideaux - Doomsday Afternoon (tracks played: Micro Softdeathstar, Thank You For The Evil, Microdeath Softstar)
Best Band of 2007: Phideaux
Song of the Year: Thank You For The Evil

Again, our most sincere thanks for your support over the past year. To the artists who provide us with all of this great music, to my brothers-in-arms at ProgRock.com, our great listeners, those who hang with us in Chat and make the time fly by, everyone around the world who downloads and listens to the IO Podcast and tells their friends, and to all fans of progressive music everywhere: thanks for making 2007 such a successful year, and let's all look forward to great and wonderful things in 2008!

EDIT 12/30 - It appears I once again made in error when typing the the name of the file for the podcast feed. My thanks to Alan in the UK for bringing this to my attention. It is now fixed, and you should be able to grab this show via iTunes or however you subscribe to podcasts. Happy New Year All!

JC