Addicted to music lists: The top bands, guitarists, albums

If you’re like many of us, you’ve been lured more than a few times into clicking on links that promise to reveal “The 10 Most Overrated Rock Guitarists of All Time,” “The 200 Best Songs of the Past 25 Years” or “The 1,001 Albums You Have to Hear Before You Die.” (Good luck with that last one.)

Love them or hate them, we share these lists on social media, prompting a flood of supportive thumbs-ups, scowling emojis, clever comments, deep conversations and bitter arguments, wasting countless hours that could have been spent making America more productive.