Songs appear as separate albums

In my iTunes Library, I have multiple songs that show up in album view as seperate Albums, even though they are clearly the same album. They even have the exact same name listed in their Album field. How do I get iTunes to group these together. Obviously, if i wanted to view them a song at a time I would be using the Songs view and no the Album view. I have tried applying a Sort field to them and marking them as "same album". But that does not apear to work. Each of these songs display the album art and play fine. I have the latest iTunes 11 on the the latest OS 10.8.

Have a look at this discussion.
http://discussions.apple.com/message/20560881?ac_cid=tw123456#20560881

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