Organization of the music library

After upgrading to version 7 (which I regret), I can find no way to see a list of all the albums in a particular genre without having to scroll down through every track in each album.
Am I overlooking something?
Is it possible for me to go back to the previous version without losing my library and settings?
The previous version of Itunes was much easier to use. Why the change?

Thanks, I discovered that by searching help in Itunes. I didn't realize that it's called the "browser" or where the button was. The previous version I had used defaulted to showing the browser and I just assumed that was the normal view.

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