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
Metropolitan Hotel (Asbury Park) Metropolitan Hotel (Asbury Park) The Metropolitan Hotel was a 180-room historic structure located at 309 Asbury Avenue in Asbury Park, New Jersey and was one of the last large hotels operating in Asbury Park before it closed in 1989. In September 2007, it was announced that the Metropolitan Hotel had deteriorated to a point in which restoration or rehabilitation was no longer a possibility. The hotel was demolished in early March 2008. The most recent structure was not the original, although a hotel had operated on the site under this name since the 1880s. The main structure was a Spanish