 "Rubber Soul" was highly influential on the Beatles' peers, leading to a widespread focus away from singles and onto creating albums of consistently high-quality songs.It has been recognised by music critics as an album that opened up the possibilities of pop music in terms of lyrical and musical scope, and as a key work in the creation of styles such as psychedelia and progressive rock.Among its many appearances on critics' best-album lists, "Rolling Stone" ranked it fifth on the magazine's 2012 list "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".