ITunes 11: simply clicking on an album automatically creates an UP NEXT playlist

hello iTunes 11 early adopters!
iTunes 10.7 situation:
when i choose (click) a different genre, artist, album etc. a song from that clicked genre, artist, album etc. won't play automatically, until i click PLAY.
iTunes 11 situation:
when i choose (click) a different genre, artist, album etc. a song from that clicked genre, album, artist etc.Up Next WILL automatically create a playlist depending on the chosen album, artist etc.
to stop Up Next from doing this, i need to click on the Up Next icon and click CLEAR.
so my question is:
is there a workaround for this? or a way to stop this behaviour?
am i the only one annoyed with this?

Oh sorry - just answered my own question - somehow the songs were marked "Skip on shuffle" (went to "Get Info" for all songs, under Options....not sure how they got marked that way, but the issue seems to be resolved on both Mac and iPhone....

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