I remember when Hi Infidelity came out, and I had a few friends in high school, who were big REO fans, and their reaction to it was “What the hell is this s..t?”
Most people I knew had that reaction an album or two later. Hi Infidelity still had a lot of good guitar songs on it - Follow My Heart and Tough Guys, Don’t Let Him Go had a great back-and-forth between keyboard and guitar.