SUGGESTION: "Play next"-function in iTunes

Sometimes, when I listen to music, I often get a feeling like "Oh! that reminded me of a song, I'm going to play that after this is done". Often I get reminded of many songs, that I maybe haven't heard in a while etc. However, I usually forget to listen to the songs because I forget to change when the current song is done.
I've been wondering a while why there isn't such a feature in iTunes that lets you make a list of upcoming songs you want to hear, then go back to where you were when you made the upcoming list. This isn't really easy to describe, so I've made a picture illustrating the basic of the idea.
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/6964/itunesvx5.gif
1. "Oh I wanna hear this song next!" Left click the song -> Play next / put in line/add to list/queue etc.
Then when you press the "play next"-button, a number will show where the "now playing"-icon normally is. If it's the first, it will say 1, if it's the second it will say 2 and so on.
2. When you put a song in the "upcoming-list", it will show in the box (not an ideal placement if you've got a lot of playlists though).
3. The "*" is for returning to the normal playlist again. If you've got shuffle mode on, it can be any of the songs in your library, and if shuffle is off, it'll be the song that comes after the song you were playing when making the list (in my case, that would be "04 - Anna Lee", see picture marked as "4")
Other functions could be an option deciding how many times you want to play the songs on the list. If it's an exceptionally great song you haven't heard in a while, maybe you want to play it 3 times in a row. This could be done by left-clicking the song in the list -> play several times -> enter number.
Options when left-clicking an item in the list:
"Delete from list"
"Play several times"
"Move down"
"Move up"
+ more
Does anyone else think this sounds like a good idea, or is it just plain out a stupid suggestion?
Custom-built   Windows XP  

hi,
what you are describing is almost like the party shuffle option. while a song is playing, you can see the forecast of the next songs and change it before they actually play.
i'm often doing what you are trying to acheive using this feature... you should give a try.

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