In 1995, Hironobu Hirata, Mineko Fujishima, and Osamu Shimada met each other through a newspaper advertisement looking to start a band.
They released their first indie album in 1997 and rose to number 2 on the HMV Shibuya charts.
In summer 2006, Swinging Popsicle's new song "Kanashii Shirabe (Sad Melody)" appeared on "CRACKER: compilation for a bittersweet love story," a CD that came with a Korean manga "Cracker."
In May 2006, the band played their first show in the United States at the FanimeCon Musicfest in the Civic Auditorium in San Jose, California.
They returned to America in June 2007 for concerts at Anime Mid-Atlantic in Richmond, Virginia and at the Knitting Factory in New York City.