Sorting By Year Released

Hello,
Within iTunes playlists I want to sort by "Year" in descending order, so that the newest album appears at the top of the playlist. But for some reason when I do that it then displays the tracks in descending order, which makes no sense.
Is there a way to sort it so that the newest album is as the top but the tracks are still in ascending order (1, 2, 3, instead of 3,2,1)?
Thanks
G

I know. Smart Playlists are OK, but you get a limited number of fixed sort orders, and reversing them isn't album sensitve. I'd also like raw SQL (like) Playlists where you get to play with subfield ordering too.
You could drop a line to iTunes Feedback.
tt2

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