Playing songs by artist iOS6.

When using the music app if I select artist then only songs from albums from this artist come up. If for example I select "Oasis" then I get a list of Oasis albums but it misses out any songs contained in other albums e.g. compilation albums such as Radio 1 live lounge. My old 1st gen iPod touch still supports this so if I select artist on that I can choose to play all the albums by said artist as well as any songs by that artist of compilation albums. I'd like to be able to do this on my phone as well, has anybody got any ideas why this can't be done anymore or how to do it?!
Many thanks in advance

I'm surprised you say it was different prior to iOS4 as this has always been a problem as far as I know.
I have recently found that on my iPod Classic I can play songs in the order I want (sorted by Sort Album and then Track Number within each Album) by clicking play when the Artist is highlighted in the list. However, if you go into that Artist and look at All Songs, it is sorted alphabetically. I can appreciate the logic of this, once you know you can play directly from the highlighted Artist.
But I cannot seem to do this on the iPhone as there's no way to highlight the Artist and press play and as far as can remember, it always sorted the list alphabetically even pre iOS4 and this is a completely USELESS sort order. Who ever wants to play tracks alphabetically? I can vaguely understand Shuffle (but never use it), but NO-ONE would ever need to play tracks in alphabetical order.
Maybe I'm missing something. IS there a way to play All Songs for an Artist sorted by Sort Album and then Track Number? Anyone know?

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