itunes are what's wrong with music formatting these days! whatever happened to good old used record store alphabetizing?
for instance, david ackles - s/t (an elvis costello favorite), would go under "a", not "d".
is gets confusing when you have fictitious names like alice cooper and marshall tucker.
and i would put "a minor forest" and "a certain ration" and "a place to bury strangers" under "a" because the "a" is an important part of the name. however, you don't count "the", so the "the stooges" goes under "s", "the animals" under "a", and so on...