Can't remove some tracks marked with exclamation

Hello everyone,
I recently purchased a new iMac, and while I had previsouly moved my entire iTunes library to the cloud (iTunes Match), thus not having all those gigabites filling the old Macbook's drive, now I am moving the whole thing back to the iMac, as it has lots of space.
Almost all the tracks downloaded without any problems, but there are a handful that are being a pain. These tracks are not from a single album, but random tracks along the whole library, and they have an exclamation mark to their left, and I can't either download them nor remove them from the track list. Although none of those with problems have been purchased from the iTunes Store, I have them on CD, and I wouldn't mind importing them to iTunes again. After all, we're talking about 10 or so tracks. Not that bad. The problem is I can't remove these problematic tracks from iTunes. If I try to download them, I get an error message. If I go and delete them, nothing happens, and they are still there (but not as a file in Finder, only in iTunes!).. And the weirdest part is, I can play/stream them from iTunes Match!
Is this weird, or has anyone experienced it before? And what could I do to solve this?
Thank you so much for you help.

Hi Michael, and thank you for your help.
Now, that's when it gets tricky. The files aren't indeed in my drive, because I did use Match to stream my music from while I was using the MBP. Once I got Match I deleted the local files to save space, since I could always get all of them back whenever I want to.
And in fact I did. We're talking about 10 or so tracks in a library of thousands.
What makes this strange is the fact that I can't download these tracks (althoug I can play/stream them). Neither method (clicking the cloud icon or right clicking and selectind download) works. I keep getting an errorwhen trying to download. And I can't remove those tracks from iTunes either. Really strange. I would happily import the tracks from the original cds, which I did to try, but then I end up with two versions of the track, one normal and one with the exclamation mark!
What do you make from that?
Again, many thanks ;)

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