My song list is out of order (iPhone 5)

So, yesterday I noticed my iPhone 5 songs were scrambed alphabetically. I don't know what caused it besides my changing of a setting in Music, "Group by Album Artist", which shouldn't have affected it. I see two possible solutions:
1. Syncing it to my iTunes
2. Restoring it
Any other ideas? The attached screenshot is typical of what I'm seeing:

Bump. Syncing to iTunes had no effect.

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Ok, I will restate what I've said throughout the entire thread:
I use an ID3 tag manager to mass-manage lots of music that I bring in via CDs and other locations. I handle a lot of music, and I only keep track of artists and song names, no albums or anything else except the genre to keep it sortof noted.
My ID3 tags for each and every song on my computer consists of ONLY the Artist name and genre, not a single thing else. No album name, no titles, nothing.
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http://i.imgur.com/aVuqq.jpg
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