Music sorting by song

I cannot figure out how my iPad is sorting music when I look under the "Songs" tab in the Music app (screenshot attached). I noticed it yesterday after I updated to ios6. How can I get it to sort with in simple alphabetical order by song title?
Why are the three songs which start with G scattered through the A's?
Thanks!

It seems to have been fixed by deleting all songs off my iPad and resyncing the lot.

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