I think terms like this are value judgments, that basically mean "I don't like it" :-) You'd pretty much have to ask the person making the statement what they mean. Rick's examples seem reasonable, tho I'd also use that term to mean a good basic song that was ruined by too much crap piled on top. The Beatles Let It Be is an example a lot of people have called overproduced. Compare the Let It Be Naked album, which shows some simple songs with a certain amount of raw charm with the original with Phil Spectre's strings and piles of reverb. But it's just opinion, someone might call the Naked release "underproduced". I'm sure Spectre didn't think what he did was "over"
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