Susanna Hoffs is finally ready to tell these old stories

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Set us as preferred Susanna Hoffs calls it “the list”: a faded piece of paper ripped from a Filofax day planner on which are scrawled the names of every guy she’s ever gone out with — some famous, some not, some “kind of douchey,” as she puts it with a what-can-you-do shrug.“It was like a dating profile but pre-internet,” Hoffs says of the tally, which she composed sometime in the late 1980s as she was racking up hits — among them the chart-topping “Walk Like an Egyptian” and “Eternal Flame” — as the frontwoman of the Bangles.“I’m a nice Jewish girl,” she adds.

“I was just keeping track, doing my homework.”Today at the bottom of the list in all caps sits the name of Jay Roach, the movie director whom Hoffs met on a blind date in 1991.He’s the subject of a new song called “None of Them Were You,” in which the singer runs down some of Roach’s predecessors — “a very dapper Brit,” “a suave and handsome actor” — before musing on her deep connection with the man to whom she’s now been married for 33 years.“I ended up with such a good guy,” she says.

“It almost brings a tear to the eye.”“None of Them Were You” isn’t the only tune with that potential on an album Hoffs is preparing to release next month.Due Sept.

18 from her Baroque Folk label, “The List” — Hoffs’ first set of original material in more than a decade — collects a dozen touching and witty songs based on tales from her life as an artist, wife, businessperson and mother.At 67, her winsome singing voice is remarkably unchanged from the era of big hair and dangly earrings.

Yet the music reflects an emotional wisdom that had to be earned through experience, as in the folky “Time,” which ponders her and Roach’s relationships with their two adult sons.“I see you dancing in the kitchen...