Sort albums by descending year - itunes unable to play album

I prefer my albums to be displayed in itunes with the latest albums first. So I use grid view albums and set 'sort by' to 'descending'.
When i select an album to play it will play the first track but the track numbers are ALSO in descending order and when clicking next it doesn't play the next track. If I go into the album and click next, the album ends because it thinks the first track of the album is the last.
This is because the track numberings are also in descending order.
Why would itunes do this? Why are not these functions mutually exclusive?
This is a major ridiculous flaw in itunes that doens't allow you to play your latest albums in order.
You are forced to have your 1967 classical album at the top of your itunes if you want to play your albums with the track numbers in order and all your latest albums down the bottom.
I'm sure this has been posted before, but any comments, suggestions, feedback from apple themselves, about this problem appreciated.

seems this is a problem people have complained about for years without any resolve to it. Unbelievable. 2012 and you can't play your latest albums in itunes, hah, what a joke
https://discussions.apple.com/message/8704619#8704619
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16011116#16011116
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16377367#16377367

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