Manually removing songs/albums from iPhone

There have been previous posts to this questions, but the newest iTunes seems to have changed.  The check box to manually manage music and videos now just allows manually managing videos.  The 'swipe' method to remove songs is tedious (1 song at a time, it does not work on albums or artists) and seems to only work on some songs; others won't delete (Yes I have the setting to 'show only local music' in the settings page).  Is there something I'm missing?  Why is this so hard?

How did those photo albums get on the iPad in the first place? If they were copied to the iPad by syncing with your computer you need to do another sync to delete them. Start iTunes on your computer and connect your iPad. Select your ad in iTunes and then click on the  photos tab In iTunes. Deselect the albums you want to delete then click on apply or sync.

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    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1535
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