We here at MTV News are a pretty diverse bunch, so the views expressed by some in our more official-type year-end lists (like James Montgomery’s Top 25 Albums and Best Songs, and the Mixtape Monday Awards) are not necessarily shared by the rest of the newsroom. So, this week we gave everyone else a chance to chime in with their own lists and explain (or defend) their choices. You’ll find all of the staff faves of 2008 here.

By Sabrina Rojas Weiss, Senior Copy Editor

10. The Ting Tings, We Started Nothing: I love singer Katie’s shouty power and the way their beat makes me jump around like a little kid. “That’s not my name!”

9. Chromeo, Fancy/ Fancier Footwork: With this playing on my headphones, I am instantly in an ’80s movie montage. (The original came out last year, but I bought this year’s “deluxe” set.)

8. Coldplay, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends: I avoided buying this for months because the hype bored me. But that soaring wall of sound in the title track finally got under my skin.

(What was Sabrina’s #1 album from 2008? Find out after the jump!)

7. Death Cab for Cutie, Narrow Stairs: I have a short attention span, and yet I can totally get lost in all eight minutes of “I Will Possess Your Heart.”

6. Magnetic Fields, Distortion: This isn’t my favorite Fields album ever, ’cause of all the distortion, but “California Girls” is the perfect antidote to a day of editing too many stories about Heidi and Spencer.

5. Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend: For a few years when I was a kid, my mother played Paul Simon’s Graceland every single time we were in the car. Amazingly, that didn’t traumatize me. Anyway, I went to Columbia and live in Brooklyn, so I’ve got to love the VW boys.

4. Beck, Modern Guilt: I love the retro, melodic sound of this album. Booty-shaking Beck is so much better than experimental or mopey Beck.

3. The National, The Virginia EP: I worship the National in the same overly emotional way my 15-year-old self worshipped the Smiths and the Cure. So, even though this is just an EP, I’m making up for not having a list last year on which I could place Boxer.

2. Kings of Leon, Only by the Night: OK, I can’t always understand what Caleb’s saying, but this entire album makes me feel like I’m on a road trip and in love for the first time and I’m going to live happily ever after.

1. Girl Talk, Feed the Animals: I have ADD, and Girl Talk’s songs are like looking inside my head: There are usually two or three things playing at once, and each track flits from topic to topic every few seconds. It’s like flipping through radio stations in a magical world where there is only good music. This album’s introduced me to a ton of hip-hop artists I’d otherwise only know by name (UNK, Birdman, the Cool Kids) and brilliantly blended them with guilty pleasures from the ’80s and ’90s (Kenny Loggins, Sinead O’Connor). Also, it’s the best workout music ever.

What were your top 10 albums for 2008? Let us know in the comments!