Not so intuitive: Album sorting in the Music app

OK, I want to see if I added Amused to Death to my iPhone.  I hadn't realized that I only yet have a 24/96 version.  I wonder if it would play that.  Probably, though to get the best quality might one have to have a audio-mixer-bypassed like Amarra on Mac?  Otherwise, you aren't really getting 24/96.  I doubt that the iPhone is a bit-transparent hirez music playing device like Pono, but I don't know at all.

Perhaps that is what is clogging up all the memory on my phone for only 30 59 albums.  I have determined that 59 albums seem to be taking about 40 Mb.  I believe now that's not unreasonable for 59 CD's to have that much uncompressed data.  But I was still wondering if a likely degraded-in-playback hirez file is lurking on the phone.  So I thought I'd take a look at the phone (I know now….would have been easier on the computer…but isn't the phone supposed to be ultra-intuitive and all that)?

So I open Music on the phone, and it shows my Albums (by Album) with Hope by Klaatu on top.  Well I'm sure that can't be the very first album alphabetically, and sure enough it isn't.  What may be the first alphabetically is Aja…which appears about in the middle of the list.  What kind of order is this?  There is a pulldown giving me different things

Now I can hold down on the Albums pulldown, and what I get is a list of things I can select from.  I can select Artists instead of Albums.  But nothing I select comes up in alphabetical order, even if I select it several times.  I can't see the logic to the order things do come up in.  Actually it seems to put the same Album on top regardless of whether sorted by Artist or Album.