One Artists, Two Albums With Same Name Displaying Together

I have my itunes setup to show artists in grid view. When I double click on a particular artist and look at the albums, I see two separate albums grouped into one. This artist has two albums named the same; one from 1980 and one from 2003. They are distinctly different albums with the same name. The only way I can separate them is to tack on [2003] to the album title of the newer one. Is there a way to have them with just the name but separated?

iTunes identifies an album by its name. If there is more than one album with the same name then iTunes will see it as one album. As you have found you have to give them different names.

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I have two greatest hits albums by different artists. Both albums are called 'greatest hits'. In iTunes on my Mac they appear as two different albums. I've just synched my music from my Mac to my iPhone (iOS8 I think). The albums have been merged into one greatest hits album (artists X songs have been added to artists Y a. How do I stop this?
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I find that the whole sorting capabilities of iTunes and ergo iPod are sorely lacking...
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although not a perfect solution, you could use the disk number field. Highlight your album, right-click, choose "Get Info". Put each album as a different disk number and you'll be sorted.
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I have two albums in iTunes 7 which will not group correctly - either they show up as 24 or so separate albums or a single compilation or so on! I've tried marking them as compilations, as not compilations, you name it.
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Note: I have this album set to be a compilation, I have filled in Queen in all 17 tracks as the album artist and all 17 tracks have the same Album name, it still does not group together properly when sorting by Album Artist (only when sorting by Album Name).
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