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@ Skully - without referring you to the wiki page again, a 'meme' is a cultural idea/concept that spreads sort of virally, and develops organically via the idiosyncratic creative expression of people who get 'infected'. At least that's how I see it.
I think that those times in your life where, operating as an artist of some kind, you suddenly feel like you've stumbled on an idea that 'seems so obvious and natural I can't believe I didn't think of it sooner', or conversely, you feel like people have blatantly ripped off your idea, more likely than not, you're dealing with a meme.
An example that springs to mind is the fundamental essence of the bassline that appears in songs like 'Radio Babylon', 'Papau New Guinea', and 'You Got The Love' (MBM, FSL, etc). There are slight variations, but really it's the same dubby meme.