Music Sorting by genre

Wondering if people here are sorting by genre and how, im looking for a way to sort by genre and then sub-genre. but of course finding difficulties doing that since most bands belong to a wide variety of genres. im looking to this using, Genre - Grouping - Artist, in Column browser.
I'm doing this in a non purist way. simply doing this to find my music the best as i can. example: Metal - Death Metal - Bandname... easy. but when organizing Indie rock or Alt. Rock, Hardcore, Goth... it pretty much all belongs to Punk rock in origin. then i'll have way too many bands under that genre of music. defeating the whole purpose of doing this.
Anybody got screens, of genre - grouping - band in itunes. i could of course, go through every single band in my collection find some vague similar genres too be able to group them under the same genre. must be a more simple way of doing this, or at least a little less time consuming.
idea. Alternative Rock - Indie Rock - band. and group things like indie pop, indie rock and grunge under Alternative Rock? even though Alt. rock really has its roots in post punk or punk rock, i would still have Punk and as a separate genre grouping things like emo, hardcore, punk revival under there. i want to hear your Genre- Grouping sort.
ps. in my collection i have everything from The Killers to Cannibal Corpse to KMFDM to Buck 65 to Micheal Jackson to Herbie Hancock. and those are only the names i think majority will regognize. about 300 artist overall. in most genres.
psII. yes i overly obsessive abotu things like this. and no i dont jsut do Rock, Classical, Jazz, World Music. cause then like 230 artists would be under Rock. and it wouldnt help me find peticular artists.
I'm sry about spelling mistakes. english is not my first language.
Message was edited by: biggz di

I was having a similar problem -- but noticed it only happened on albums where the "Album Artist" was not unique (such as when it was listed as "Various Artists" or "Unkown". When that happened, no matter what I did, the genre did not sync correctly to the IPhone.
My solution was to change the "Album Artist to something unique (mostly I used the name of the album in that field) and resync'd my IPhone. Suddenly the genre was sync'd correctly between Itunes and the IPhone.
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