The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle November; Carlin gives a date of November 11, though November 5 has also been cited among online sources. "The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle" sold poorly when it was first released in 1973 but received acclaim from critics. "Rolling Stone" magazine's Ken Emerson said that its lengthy, vividly written songs make for a more challenging and romantic album than "Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.", but still retain that album's ebullient music because of Springsteen and the E Street Band's masterful playing. In a less enthusiastic review for "Creem", Robert Christgau wrote that it does not cohere as
Operation Asbury Park Operation Asbury Park Operation Asbury Park was a deployment, on June 2, 2004, and June 17, 2004, of taskforce 1/6 BLT of the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (or MEU) engaged Taliban and other anti-coalition forces in both Oruzgan Province and Zabul Province culminating in the Dai Chopan region of Afghanistan. This operation was characterized by atypical fighting on the side of the tactics of the Taliban and the other guerillas encountered. During "Asbury Park", the MEU was faced with an opponent that frequently would dig in and engage the Marine forces, rather than the traditional hit and run (or "asymmetric